Australian BioCommons is delighted to be hosting staff from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) in Australia in March/April 2025.

Join us for three interactive online community discussions where participants can share their experiences and engage directly with ENA staff about ongoing challenges and solutions. 

The three sessions will focus on:

• Genomics - decoupling genome annotations and assemblies, and pangenomes.  

• MAGs - submitting MAGs at scale, and how to submit data when there are gaps in the NCBI species taxonomy.

• eDNA - recent changes enabling eDNA sequences to be more findable through submission to ENA

All are welcome.

Express your interest in attending a roundtable

Location: Online via Zoom.

Date/Time: 1-3 Apr, 10:00-12:00 AEDT

Facilitators: 

Maira Ihsan, User Support Bioinformatician, European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

Dr Joana Pauperio, Biodiversity Curator, European Nucleotide Archive, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is the European node of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC), providing a comprehensive record of the world’s nucleotide sequencing information, covering raw sequencing data, sequence assembly information and functional annotation. The three INSDC members (ENA, NCBI-SRA and DDBJ-SRA) routinely exchange data which ensures nucleotide data is archived and shared across geographically dispersed locations (Europe, USA and Japan). The ENA is provided by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL-EBI.

This event is part of a series of bioinformatics training events. If you’d like to hear when registrations open for other events, please subscribe to the Australian BioCommons newsletter.