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Colman O'Cathail

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ENA Project Lead & Product Owner ‪@ebi.embl.org‬ | Bioinformatics services and infrastructure | @enasequence.bsky.social

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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) @enasequence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A new report puts a number on what open data is worth. £11.8bn/year The ENA's piece of that picture: petabytes of nucleotide sequence data, permanently archived and freely accessible the sequence layer beneath it all. Open data works because it's infrastructure. Proud to be part of it.
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Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The INSDC has today launched its minimal specifcations. This has been a huge amount of work over several years involving European Nucleotide Archive staff both past and present, but also our colleagues NCBI and DDBJ.
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 18/11/2025
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care. EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform. #WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t... 🧬💻
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A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
All BGE genomes are openly available at the @enasequence.bsky.social - and can be accessed and downloaded by anyone, anywhere in the world. Head to the ERGA Data Portal to browse the data produced by #BGE and other #ERGA associated initiatives: portal.erga-biodiversity.eu/home 🖥️
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ERGA Data Portal
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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) @enasequence.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🎉We are excited to launch the Data Hubs Portal! 🎉 This portal provides an interface for the Data Hubs at the ENA. To find out more about the Data Hubs Portal, visit the portal: www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/datahubs/ or see this post from EMBL-EBI: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u....
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ENA Data Hubs Portal
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Guerrino Macori @guerrinomacori.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Post-Doc position in AMR and bioinformatics at UCD. Deadline 17th January. Join our multidisciplinary team tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge research. Job ref: 017896 here: ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
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Andrew Page @andrewjpage.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e
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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) @enasequence.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Proud to be part of the family of resources that brings such immense value to the global scientific community! Check out the survey results 👇
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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) @enasequence.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
ENA is having its annual facilities day event! We kicked off the day getting our guests to break into groups an designing some flags they felt represented their groups!
Flags designed by groups at ENA facilities day
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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) @enasequence.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
You may have noticed that we have A LOT of posts on our feed. We have imported all our Tweets into BlueSky to make it easier for users to find their favourite posts! Please be aware, although these were all posted today, they will be marked with a "date archived" date when they were originally made
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 20/11/2024
For those of you who don’t know us yet... 🟢 We’re one of the six sites of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory @embl.org 🟢 We manage the world’s most comprehensive suite of open data resources and tools for the life sciences Nice to meet you! 👋 🧬 🖥️ #MolBiol www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwrw...
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EMBL-EBI: the home of big data in biology
YouTube video by European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 19/11/2024
Not enough bioinformatics in your Bluesky feed? We’ve got you covered. Follow us for our latest news, exciting life science research, updates from our data resources, new tools and training resources. Haven't heard of EMBL-EBI? Take a look at what we’re working on. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/our-im...
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Our impact
We provide open data that helps scientists understand life and that informs solutions to real-world problems, such as infectious diseases, climate change and food security.
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Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
To all my extended colleagues across the extended science social-verse, @enasequence.bsky.social is also available to be followed. Content and posts pending planning!
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Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social · 27/04/2024
The ability to post GIFs makes BlueSky the new leading social media platform. No question about it.
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The Office Steve Carell GIF
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Justine Rudkin @scousemicrobe.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow. 3-year fully funded PhD for UK students. Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
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Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Great day today discussing open data with ENA users today, getting improvement ideas for the service. It’s amazing the quantity of genomic data out there in the open, and it’s amazing to hear what people do with it.
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Our latest paper is out now. The brilliant Chris Connor’s entire PhD in one paper. And I hope a new avenue of research opened in MDR E. coli journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/n
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Colman O'Cathail @colmanoc.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Hi! New to BlueSky but I'm the Infection Biology Project Manager at the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). I work on all things relating to pathogen nucleotide data and metadata standards, plus coordinating dataflow. #HiSciSky #AcademicSky
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