Feature | 8 min READ

Plants are boring.

I mean, they just sit there, right?

Quick read | 5 min READ

GROW Colombia: recovering the Andean Bear

Using advanced genomics to help recover the Andean bear and preserve Colombia’s biodiversity, while making an economic and social impact.

Feature | 5 min READ

Women in computing: learning the ropes in bioinformatics

Exploring the basics of bioinformatics at the Earlham Institute - the rewards and the lessons learned.

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The twelve polyploids of Christmas

Ho-ho-ho! At Earlham Institute we love a polyploid organism. Why stick to sequencing and decoding boring diploids when you have access to some of the biggest supercomputing power for life science research in Europe?

Feature | 5 min READ

What's in a gene?

What do genes make? With third generation genome sequencing, a lot more than we thought.

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Endangered arks: zoology and conservation

Earlier in the year, David Field from the Zoological Society of East Anglia came to speak at EI and posed the question: “Zoos are powerful conservation organisations – fact or fiction?”