[embed]https://youtu.be/06R_3CmZ76k[/embed] The ELIXIR-IT All Hands Meeting 2026, held in Bari on 9–10 February, brought together researchers, infrastructure representatives and stakeholders from…
The ELIXIR-IT All Hands Meeting 2026 took place on 9–10 February at Villa Romanazzi Carducci in Bari, gathering over 130 participants from the ELIXIR-IT community, national research infrastructures,…
ELIXIR Italy has launched its new website, marking a key step in its growth and alignment with the ELIXIR Hub. The redesigned platform features an updated structure, expanded content, and improved user experience across devices. It offers clearer, more integrated access to services, training, and community activities, while introducing new sections like Industry & Innovation and Impact. The site aims to better showcase ELIXIR Italy’s value to research, industry, and society.
ELIXIR adds 6 Core Data Resources and 2 Deposition Databases, reaching 37 and 17 total. These trusted tools support long-term life science research in Europe.
CNR seeks a full-time Director Technologist for IBIOM Bari. Focus on PNRR project management and research infrastructure. Apply online by 22 Jan 2026, 6 PM CET.
Non-canonical nucleotides are widespread chemical modifications in eukaryotic genomes and transcriptomes, especially within the epitranscriptome. Traditional enrichment-based sequencing methods cannot detect them at single-molecule resolution, a limitation overcome by nanopore sequencing. Researchers from the University of Bari (Italy) present a transformer-based model for the ab initio detection of multiple RNA modifications, along with two tools, NanoListener and NanoSpeech, to create training datasets and develop modification-aware basecallers. Their approach enables the simultaneous identification of up to nine ribonucleotide variants.
Protein embeddings encode sequence information using protein language models. The Embedding-Based Alignment (EBA) method enables pairwise embedding comparison and remote homolog detection. In this paper we show that, when applied to a set of multifunctional human proteins, EBA identifies remote homologs sharing structural and functional features, validated on the Swiss-Prot database.
CREDO, a Customizable, REproducible, DOcker file generator for bioinformatics applications, has been developed as a tool to moderate reproducibility issues by building and distributing docker containers with embedded bioinformatics tools. CREDO simplifies the process of generating Docker images, facilitating reproducibility and efficient research in bioinformatics.
In this work, it is evaluated the possibility of improving AlphaFold2’s three-dimensional predictions by developing a new pipeline (AlphaMod) that integrates AlphaFold2 with MODELLER, a traditional homology modeling program. For this study, MARCONI100 at HPC@CINECA was used, which was made available through an ELIXIR project.