Alex Bateman

[Pedro Madrigal @compBiology]

Looking forward to speaking about Rfam and RNAcentral at the Cambridge RNA Club!

[UniProt @uniprot]

A new report on EMBL-EBI resources by Frontier Economics shows how tools like UniProt save time, boost productivity and support interdisciplinary collaboration.
Read the report highlights: https://t.co/CfekllziiE

[Pedro Madrigal @compBiology]

New webinar:
Accessing RNA data programmatically with the Rfam and RNAcentral APIs

📅 Thursday 25 June 2026, 14:30–15:30 (BST)
🔗 Registration is free but essential:

https://t.co/djvw4YemR7

@RNAcentral @RfamDB #bioinformatics

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

@tatta_bio This is a great opportunity to learn more about SeqHub. It has some super cool features for understanding your genome/protome.

[UniProt @uniprot]

We’ve added more protein structure data to UniProt!

We now import data from the 3D-Beacons collaboration of macromolecular structural data providers and for the first time include small angle scattering data.

Check CAMK2A to see some of the new data: Q9UQM7
@SIB
@EMBLHamburg

[EMBL-EBI @emblebi]

There are changes coming to the @uniprot reference proteomes resource.

Reference proteomes will remain in UniProtKB, while others will move to UniParc.

Read more:
https://t.co/pqj6pKObCA

Uniprot is a collaboration between EMBL-EBI,
@ISBSIB & the Protein Information Resource.

[ISCB News @iscb]

Celebrate excellence in #computationalbiology and #bioinformatics! Nominate members of the community for #ISCB awards!

Submit your nominations here: https://t.co/6ZHDU2LYY2

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

Thanks to Sandra for all her amazing work on @uniprot over the years!

[UniProt @uniprot]

Today UniProt says goodbye to its @emblebi curation team leader, Sandra Orchard.

Her expertise, dedication and enthusiasm have had a lasting impact on the team. We wish her continued success in all her future endeavours.

Please share your memories or well wishes in the comments

[Yunha Hwang @Micro_Yunha]

We're thrilled to announce SeqHub, an AI-enabled platform for biological sequence analysis. SeqHub brings together sequence search, genome annotation, and data sharing in one place.

I dreamed of a single place where I could learn everything about my sequences. Today, a much more refined version of this dream takes form with https://t.co/1l5O5cP3tE, built by an incredible team at @tatta_bio. Our goal is to make sequence interpretation more intuitive and collaborative for everyone working with biological sequences.

Currently, SeqHub is optimized for microbial protein and genome analysis. As we expand beyond microbial data, we'd love your feedback to help shape what comes next. I'm deeply grateful to our team at Tatta Bio, and to our collaborators and funders, for making this vision a reality.

Check it out at https://t.co/vXbVqe507X!

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

@AnthropicAI I have a very useful @pfamdb project for Pfam curation which is speeding up work. But the skill generated from that project is incredibly frustrating. The basic instructions are forgotten between conversations. It just seems bad at instruction following.

[ISCB News @iscb]

The first #ISCBUK conference is accepting submissions! Bringing together the UK's #bioinformatics community, the meeting is a chance to share cutting-edge science, foster collaborations, and build networks. 

📥Submit here: https://t.co/vdIB57PyGI

[ISCB News @iscb]

🇬🇧 Introducing ISCB UK! Join us April 21–22, 2026, in Cambridge for the first #ISCBUK conference connecting the #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology community in the UK.

✨ Abstract submissions now open!
🗓️ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026
🔗 https://t.co/vdIB57PyGI

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

@BioinfoAdv Do you want to help shape the future of computational biology. Please apply to join the editorial team.

[Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social @RolandDunbrack]

@dimiboeckaerts @AllThingsApx @grok ipSAE is a better form of ipTM. It evaluates the ipTM score over only interchain residue pairs with PAE<10 (so confident not just interface pairs). It is asymmetric. Align on chain A residues, score B. or Align on B, score A. Min of those two = ipSAE_min. https://t.co/rk2klu4wqq

[Gonzalo Parra @GonzaParra_]

CATH turns 30 years old 🥳
They celebrate with a Symposium on September 16th! I'll be presenting our work: "An Atlas of Energetic Evolutionary Constraints Across Protein Families" Unbelievable selection of speakers! So if you are around London, Register:
https://t.co/mlrTzPXzQl

[Kirill Medvedev @KirillEMedvedev]

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor and Medvedev lab is open at the Department of Computer Science @UCF
I am seeking motivated PhD students to join my lab. Hiring details: https://t.co/Va7B34mL50 Please repost 🙂 #hiring #bioinformatics

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

@InterProDB This is big news from the team. Its taken more than a decade since InterProScan5, but it has been worth the wait.

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

Wanted to say a big thank you to @AnthropicAI. Today Claude has close to one shotted two scripts which have helped increase my productivity in building @PfamDB families. Claude is also largely writing the annotation based on @uniprot Swiss-Prot entries.

[EMBL @embl]

EMBL Hamburg scientists have discovered a group of mysterious microbial cold-loving molecules, ‘cryorhodopsins’ with extraordinary abilities.

They are the first observed molecules that can act as both on and off switches for electrical activity in cells.
https://t.co/RqUjxYDEdF

[Alex Bateman @Alexbateman1]

@iscb Don't forget to dig out your oldest ISMB T-shirt and take your reusable water bottle.