Tackling global challenges through life science research.

UK Conference of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2020

Bringing together researchers, software developers and data managers working across the life sciences to share ideas, discoveries, tools and best practice in computational methods.

Advanced Python for Biologists 2020

This Advanced level workshop is ideal for researchers and technical workers with a background in biology and a basic knowledge of Python, to develop bigger or more complicated programs and increase skills and knowledge about the language, including object-oriented approaches to programming.

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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10 Pollinators you never knew were crucial for your 5-A-Day, chocolate, and tequila!

Honeybees get all the press, but what about the other pollinators keeping our supermarket shelves stocked full of fruit and veg - not to mention chocolate and even tequila?

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From cracking the Enigma to decoding living systems: Turing's gifts

Codebreaking, computing, technological development, mathematics, interdisciplinarity. All of these make Earlham Institute a powerful catalyst for life science research, and would perhaps not have been so swiftly brought to bear if it weren’t for Alan Turing, whose birthday, life and achievements we celebrate today.

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Advancing gene edited crops is crucial for the UK economy & global food security

Changes to gene editing regulation could boost UK research and economy

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Why bioinformatics is important

Bioinformatics is part of the full package.

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How aphids spit lncRNA into plants to make them a tastier prospect

Aphids are a nuisance, especially ones which can adapt to hundreds of different plant species. Perhaps long non-coding RNA helps them to do it?

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Three ways EI is helping bees

On World Bee Day, we are celebrating our precious pollinators and the work our scientists are doing to aid their long-term survival.