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ELIXIR-UK All Hands 2020

The annual ELIXIR-UK All Hands brings together people working at ELIXIR-UK consortium member institutions for this two-day meeting.

Software Carpentry Virtual Workshop 2021

Our goal is to help scientists become more productive by teaching them basic computing skills of program design, version control, testing and task automation.

Data Carpentry Virtual Workshop 2021

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, with no prior computational experience required.

Genome Annotation Workshop 2021

This 3-day course will help to provide scientists with an overview of eukaryotic genome annotation approaches, covering advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, transcriptome assembly, best practice guidance for building gene models utilising short and long read sequencing data or cross species proteins, how to integrate and assess different gene models and create a publication/release ready gene set.

Long Reads Workshop 2021

This two-day hands-on training workshop will enable researchers that are currently using long read technology and those analysing long read RNAseq data, to produce genome annotations, differential expression analyses and RenSeq.

Norwich Single-Cell Symposium 2021

Now in its fourth year, the annual Norwich Single-Cell Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell genomics technologies and their application in microbial, plant, animal and human health and disease.

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Five reasons why gene editing is good for the UK

Gene editing isn’t just about medicine. The potential benefits of adopting gene editing techniques in crop research are huge and varied, for the environment, consumer health and the economy. Here are five reasons why gene editing is good for the UK.

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Accessible single-cell RNA-sequencing bioinformatics training using Galaxy

Going from the wet lab to bioinformatics isn’t always easy, but it’s part and parcel of the job for many working on single cell genomics

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From climate change to mind control, protists run the world

You may never have heard of them but protists have the power to make or break life on Earth. From mind-controlling parasites to oxygen-belching phytoplankton, these single-celled organisms dominate the tree of life - yet we know precious little about them.

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The incredible ULK: what bioinformatics can do

Bioinformatics can reveal the role of genes in the human body without us even having to don a lab coat. Two such genes, ULK1 and ULK2, may look similar but recent research has shown them to play diverse and important roles in autophagy and disease, among many other things.

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A PhD, is it worth it? Just ask our students

From publishing new machine learning algorithms to establishing bioinformatics training programmes in Ghana and giving a talk in the plenary session of an international conference, Earlham Institute students have already achieved a lot during their PhDs.

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Healthy soil is important, but what does it look like?

Without healthy soils, we’d have precious little food to eat. But this fundamental resource is being eroded by climate change and overuse of agrichemicals. Under severe threat are the communities of microbes which live in and around crops, helping them to thrive, yet we still know precious little about what our treatment of soils is doing to those microorganisms.