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Bread and butter: decoding wheat


Integral to the international effort that brought us the bread wheat genome, decoding this complex, hexaploid crop - from sequence to assembly, annotation and even mapping the epigenome - has been at the heart of what we do at Earlham Institute.

  • 12 August 2019
  • Learning

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Where bees roam: pollinate this!


Bees are in decline. How can technology and algorithm development boost their chances, through understanding which wild flowers they pollinate?

  • 07 August 2019
  • Science

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Inside EI: Public engagement with impact


Earlham Institute opened its doors for the public to explore our fascinating and diverse range of important scientific research projects.

  • 06 August 2019
  • Organisation

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Women in Science: Elena Rodriguez - the mind of the gut microbiome


Elena, a student on EI's Year in Industry programme, has been investigating the interaction between microbes and the gut, focusing on how probiotics can improve intestinal health, and what this means for the future of IBD research.

  • 31 July 2019
  • Learning

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Our year in industry: setting the stage for a career in science


More people are going to university than ever before. One way students are boosting their employability is through a Year in Industry placement. What’s it like?

  • 29 July 2019
  • Learning

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Tick tock circadian clock


Plants and us - we’re not so different, especially when it comes to the daily rituals of life - and circadian clocks show we’re all creatures of habit.

  • 08 July 2019
  • Science

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Docker for bioinformatics: reproducibility at the core


Reproducibility in science is key. How can containerisation tools such as Docker help bioinformatics and bioinformaticians?

  • 02 July 2019
  • Technology

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Why is it important to talk about the philosophy of Science?


Enlighten, engage and empower: how science relates to stakeholders and why this is important

  • 18 June 2019
  • Learning

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Open source data management: Sherlock open for all


EI provides a new, easy, customisable, open source data management platform for the bioinformatics community

  • 14 June 2019
  • Technology