The Core Facility for Bioinformatics (CFB) co-hosted a two-part workshop with the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) on December 4 and 5, 2025. The workshop is facilitated by Louisse Paola Mirabueno, Ensembl Outreach Officer, who completed her Bachelor’s degree in Genetics and Cell Biology at Dublin City University, and graduated with an MPhil. at the University of Reading.
The first day is the Ensembl Genome Browser Workshop, attended by university wet-lab scientists and bioinformaticians who are new to using Ensembl and/or have not yet discovered the power and depth of the resource. The full-day workshop presented the participants with the opportunity to learn about the wide range of data available through Ensembl and provided hands-on experience in navigating the Ensembl website to retrieve and interpret data.
For the second day, the Ensembl Train the Trainer Workshop provided the participants the general principles of training, along with the specifics of how Ensembl prepare their training courses. The course included a practical element where participants were able to practice delivering training and receive feedback on their training style.
The workshop group was also able to go around the Core Facility for Bioinformatics and other facilities at the Philippine Genome Center.
💡 Ensembl provides an interface and an infrastructure for accessing genomic information, including genes, variants, comparative genomics and gene regulation data, covering over 300 vertebrate species. Its sister project, Ensembl Genomes, consists of five sub-portals (bacteria, fungi, protists, plants, and invertebrate metazoa) which contain data for over 2,000 eukaryotic (including wheat, barley, tomato and brassicas) and over 30,000 prokaryotic genomes.
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