For this month’s Getting to know us series, we talked to Shradha Saraf, a bioinformatician in the Ensembl Plants team. Her advice to her younger self is to follow your dreams! Read more about Shradha and her role in the team below.
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Find out which conferences we are attending, and learn more about the Ensembl project and its staff
Getting to know us: Nakib from Ensembl Variation
Meet Syed Nakib Hossain, who joined the Ensembl Variation team in 2021. Read on to learn more about Nakib’s role in the team, what he is currently working on and what he enjoys about working at EMBL-EBI.
Continue readingRetirement of Neandertal Genome website
The Neandertal Genome website will be retired at the end of June 2023. Details about how to access data previously hosted by this resource can be found at the Ensembl Neandertal Project website.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Jorge Álvarez Jarreta from Ensembl Metazoa
This month, we meet Jorge Álvarez Jarreta to talk about his professional journey, Jorge’s role in Ensembl and learn about the new and upcoming features that the Metazoa team is working on.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Nishadi from Ensembl Microbes
This month, we meet Nishadi De Silva, who joined the Ensembl Microbes team in 2016. She’s responsible for the delivery of microbial genomes on our platforms. With a diverse background in computer science and bioinformatics, Nishadi is passionate about providing open-access to scientific data.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Louisse from Ensembl Outreach
We are back with our Getting to know us blog series! This month, we talked to Louisse from the Outreach team. Find out how she ended up here, what her everyday workday looks like and what she does outside of work.
Continue readingComing back into the office at Ensembl
Firstly, a very happy new year from us at Ensembl. We spent last year adapting to the new and exciting challenges with the reopening of the Wellcome Genome campus. Like other research institutes around the world, EMBL EBI has risen to the occasion, acting swiftly to safeguard staff and students and embracing the new ways of hybrid working in creative and bold ways.
Continue readingGeek for a Week : Yeorgia Argirou
The Ensembl “Geek for a Week” experience is a way for Ensembl software developers and our scientific collaborators to work in an intensive environment for short periods of time on the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. Visiting “Geeks” will be assigned a desk within the Ensembl team at the EMBL-EBI and have an opportunity to work on their project with direct access to the developers who built the tools and the Ensembl scientists using these for data analysis. Here, we meet Yeorgia Argirou, who joined us in November 2022 as a “Geek for a Week”.
Continue readingGetting to know us: Marc from Ensembl Production
After a little hiatus we are back with our Getting to know us blog series! Meet Marc Chakiachvili who joined Ensembl back in 2018. Keep reading to find out about his diverse work experience and that you don’t have to do an undergraduate degree in bioinformatics to work in the field.
Continue readingGSoC 2022: Our students and their projects
Today’s blog focuses on this year’s Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GSoC is an international program founded by Google in 2005 with the purpose of bringing together open-source organisations, and developers interested in contributing to open-source software and getting an “exposure to real-world software development techniques”. Host organisations list project ideas, and applicants discuss these ideas directly with mentors from the organisations and devise a project proposal to Google, who issue a small stipend to successful applicants.
EMBL-EBI’s Genome Assembly and Annotation (GAA) section, which includes Ensembl, has been a GSoC mentor since 2016. The GAA is one of 198 open-source organisations who have undergone rigorous application and selection processes to ensure GSoC applicants, also referred to as contributors, are receiving the best possible mentorship for their projects. We are grateful that we have once again had the opportunity to work with Google and help contributors realise their projects. Every year we receive applications from candidates who want to learn more about writing open-source software. And as of 2022, Google has also welcomed applications not just from students, but anyone over the age of 18 with an interest in open-source software development.
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