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Machine Learning for Bioinformatics: A User's Guide

Machine learning can help us extract meaning from the vast amounts of data associated with modern research and hugely increases the scope for novel discovery. In this guest blog, two of our PhD researchers cover five machine learning essentials that bioinformaticians need to know.

What’s buzzing about your bee hotel? The results are in!

Bees are crucial pollinators, and we need them if we are to maintain a healthy diet. Along with Saviour Bees, we launched a citizen science survey to understand how Brits are using bee hotels, which are one way of boosting the chances for solitary bees by offering a refuge and a place to raise their next generation.

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?