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European Bioinformatics Institute to lead UK PubMed Central in 2011-2016

Posted: Jul 28, 2011

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been awarded the contract to run and lead the development of UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), the free online literature resource for life science researchers.

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Michael Ashburner wins prestigious computational biology award

Posted: Jul 21, 2011

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) has presented Michael Ashburner with this year's Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award, acknowledging his outstanding contributions to the field of computational biology. "His work is now seen as a landmark and an achievement in technology," says Alfonso Valencia, chair of the ISCB awards committee. Michael was joint-director of EMBL-EBI with Graham Cameron.

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