CoRDI 2025 Keynote by Dr. Rob Finn

Описание: The keynote speech "Delivering EMBL-EBI’s life science data resources in a world of growing data and impacts from the use of artificial intelligence." was recorded on 26 August at RWTH Aachen University.

About the topic:
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), hosts many of the most widely used databases within the Life Science Research community. These databases can be broadly grouped into: (i) those responsible for archiving omics data types; (ii) those that build upon the archived data by processing and generating inferred knowledge. There is a complex data ecosystem, such that the different resources do not duplicate effort, ensure the data is FAIR, and facilitate the discovery of related data across the different resources. Key to the delivery of these resources is the linking of them with research programs, either within EMBL or more widely within the community. This ensures that the resources remain fit for purpose, as well as meeting the evolving demands of the communities they serve. In this presentation, I will illustrate how research outputs (tools and data) influence our data resources, as well as how we are adapting to the need to access larger volumes of data. Of particular note is the growing demand to connect different datatypes for the purpose of developing AI models, and how we are using different aspects of AI to enrich and deliver our resources.

About the speaker:
Dr. Rob Finn heads the Genome Assembly and Annotation Section and is the lead of the Microbiome Informatics team at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Rob is also co-lead on Ensembl, and while maintaining scientific oversight for the whole resource, part of his team responsible for the microbial divisions found in Ensembl. The Microbiome Informatics team also produces MGnify, a world leading resource for the functional and taxonomic analysis and archiving of microbiome derived sequence data. Complementing these biological resources, Rob has a small research team that develop algorithms for exploring microbial genomic diversity, as well as gaining deeper insights into the interaction between bacteria and phages.