EMBL-EBI Training

It's December 3, so that can only mean one thing ... time to open door number 3 on our calendar! What will be behind it? https://lnkd.in/eY37VxXG #countdown #calendar #ondemandlearning #webinars #onlinelearning

Meet Elliot Sollis, Senior Curator of the GWAS Catalog and one of the expert trainers for our gene-environment interactions in human health and disease course. Here, Elliot describes more about his career pathway and how the GWAS Catalog is contributing to the course. Interested in joining this course? Make you you get your application in by 15th December: https://lnkd.in/emcVVpVE ❔ What has been your career pathway so far? I studied human genetics and molecular biology, followed by a PhD in the genetics of language-related disorders. I now work as a Senior Curator at the GWAS Catalog (https://lnkd.in/eYHuQWpa), which brings together full datasets and detailed supporting information for ~100,000 human genome-wide association studies. My work involves finding and extracting the essential data and arranging it in a standardised and richly-annotated format to facilitate further research. I’m also involved in the design of the Catalog’s website and software, as well as user support, testing and training. ❔ How can the GWAS Catalog assist research on gene-environment interactions? The GWAS Catalog contains detailed information for each GWAS, including the traits, genotyping methods and samples. We report the most significant variant-trait associations for each GWAS, and in many cases you can also download the full GWAS datasets (known as summary statistics) to use in your own analyses. We currently have nearly 900 studies looking specifically at gene-environment interactions, including ~150 full summary statistics datasets, covering a wide range of traits and exposures. ❔ What are you most looking forward to about this course? I’m looking forward to sharing our available data with a multidisciplinary audience, and also learning more from the participants about how they would like to see gene-environment interaction data represented in the future. It’s also a great opportunity to encourage anyone working on their own GWAS - and especially gene-environment interaction studies! - to submit their data to the GWAS Catalog and help us make the resource even more valuable for this particular field.

December is nearly here, which means it's almost time to start counting down to the end of the year! We have prepared a special treat for you - open a door on each day in December to discover one of the recorded webinars, training collections or online tutorials that we created this year: https://lnkd.in/eY37VxXG As always, you can access our on-demand content at any time, and for free.

Thank you to everyone who attended today's workshop to learn more about the role that small molecules play in biological systems and how European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI tools and resources can be used to identify small molecule drugs. Thinking about your training needs for 2025? Take a look at our course list and remember to sign up for alerts: https://lnkd.in/dRaihKYC

If you're working with bioimage data in the life sciences, you might find this course exploring how public bioimaging data resources enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis especially useful: https://lnkd.in/eRi32hTn After the course you should be able to: - Interact programmatically with the BioImage Archive (https://lnkd.in/dG2H-K4) and other data resources - Interact with data formats for biological imaging data, particularly cloud-optimised formats - Apply pre-built machine learning models to image data - Train and retrain machine learning models on image data - Utilise machine learning approaches for object detection, image segmentation, and de-noising - Generate quantitative conclusions from images Applications close 5 January 2025 #BioImageArchive #bioimaging #microscopy #machinelearning #datascience #sciencelearning #sciencetraining #EMBL #EMBLEBI

We've been having loads of great feedback for our new online tutorial on antimicrobial resistance. The tutorial was created by our intern, Xena Dyball, and in this blog you can read more about what Xena learned during her time with us: https://lnkd.in/e6iyRBzv Today is Xena's last day with us before she returns to her PhD, and we'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you! It's been wonderful to have you with us for the last 3 months. Take a look at the tutorial that Xena created: https://lnkd.in/e6KfuXwJ #Intern #Internship #AMR #antimicrobialresistance #onlinelearning #sciencelearning #sciencetraining #EMBL #EMBLEBI

Polygenic scores (PGS) offer insights into an individual’s genetic predisposition to certain traits or diseases. Join our upcoming #webinar to learn how to use the PGS calculator for calculating polygenic scores. Registration is free but essential: https://lnkd.in/eAE-abUZ Speakers: Sam Lambert and Benjamin Wingfield #DataScience #Bioinformatics #genomics #genetics #geneticresearch #openaccess European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

And so, to the last course picture of 2024! Thank you so much to everyone for joining us online this week to learn more about plant genomes. And thank you to everyone who has attended our courses over 2024. It's been an absolute pleasure to be a part of your learning journeys and we can't wait to see what you do with your new skills! Would you like to build your skills in data science, bioinformatics and/or omics research in 2025? Have a look at our 2025 course list and make sure you sign up for alerts: https://lnkd.in/dRaihKYC

2024 has flown by - we are running the last courses of the year this week! It's been a pleasure to welcome everyone to Hinxton to learn more about the technology, analysis, workflows, tools and resources for next-generation sequence analysis. Do you want to improve your genome bioinformatics knowledge in 2025? Sign up to our mailing list to find out when this course will open for applications: https://lnkd.in/ee6jVjxZ #bioinformatics #genomics #sequencing #nextgensequencing #NGS #sciencelearning #sciencetraining #EMBL #EMBLEBI

This week (18 - 24 November) is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week. This aims to raise awareness of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and its impact on global public health. There are a number of European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI tools and resources that can be used to investigate AMR. Our new tutorial will take you through some of these resources in more detail: https://lnkd.in/e6KfuXwJ By the end of the course you will be able to: - Discuss the problems linked to AMR - Identify appropriate EMBL-EBI resources and tools for studying AMR - Describe the process of sharing, finding, and using publicly available microbial data - Use some EMBL-EBI resources to investigate microbial data #WAAW #AMR #datascience #publichealth #globalhealth #sciencetraining #sciencelearning #EMBL #EMBLEBI