
Genome Assembly and Annotation
Unleashing the potential of big data in biology
- 21
- Projects
- 4
- Years accepted
- 7
- In 2026
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212026
7 acceptedShow
Expose a Subset of ENA REST Services as MCP
Accepted project · by Dineshkumar Anbalagan
The goal of this project is to provide a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that is suitable for production and exposes expected REST endpoints from...
Building a Perturbation-Aware LLM for Multimodal In Silico Perturbation Modelling
Accepted project · by Esra Ersan
Perturbation biology datasets across CRISPR screens, MAVE, and scPerturb-seq remain siloed in incompatible formats, making cross-modal reasoning...
Browser-Native Genomic Feature Search using SQLite WASM and JBrowse
Accepted project · by Muhammad Ali Arif
This project implements a browser-native genomic feature search system for efficiently querying large GFF3 annotation datasets without requiring...
Annotation Metrics Reporting and Analysis Modules for the Ensembl Assembly/Annotation Tracking App
Accepted project · by Shrinidhi
The Ensembl Assembly/Annotation tracking application stores rich quality metrics for thousands of genome annotations but currently lacks tooling to...
Expand genome metadata in Ensembl with AI tools
Accepted project · by Soomin Lee
The Ensembl Plants and Metazoa platforms face a significant metadata gap where critical biological context, such as ploidy, strain, and sex, is...
Sequence similarity networks for the visualisation and exploration of MGnify Proteins
Accepted project · by Szabolcs Vidám
My proposal is to develop a scalable computational pipeline to construct, annotate, and visualise Sequence Similarity Networks (SSNs) for a...
Ask VEPai. Trained chatbot interface for Ensembl VEP web
Accepted project · by UninterpretableEvolvingBlackBox
Ensembl VEP's web interface offers dozens of configuration options for variant annotation, overwhelming new users and generating recurring helpdesk...
2023
5 acceptedShow
Interactive Visualization for Comparative Metagenomics in MGnify
Accepted project · by Amartya Nambiar
The project aims to improve the visualisation tools for metagenomics data in the MGnify platform by identifying and using new technologies that can...
Using Deep Learning to Identify Features of Protein-Coding Genes
Accepted project · by Friederike Biermann
Accurate gene annotation in eukaryotes solely based on genomic data has been a significant obstacle in biology since the introduction of...
Differentiating Real and Misaligned Introns with Machine Learning
Accepted project · by Kenny Lam
The advancement in the accuracy of long-read sequencing technology has allowed us to explore novel transcript variants of known genes. Preventing...
My proposal is to develop a NextFlow pipeline that will efficiently and accurately perform repeat annotation and masking on large genome sequences...
Expand the species search functionality for the ensembl beta website (Metazoa).
Accepted project · by Satya.Adda
The objective of this project is to create a standalone Elasticsearch tool that can handle taxonomic-related requests. This tool helps to expand the...
2022
6 acceptedShow
- Accessing Ensembl data with Presto and AWS AthenaRohit Shrivastava
- New FAANG backend with Elasticsearch and GraphQLSunny Tarawade
- Using Machine Learning to Identify and Classify Repeat FeaturesYantong
- Investigating and Implementing Compact Data Representation of Homology RelationshipKevinGao
- Extract important information from scientific papersMalay Joshi
- GSoC 2022 Proposal - Extract text from tables in Scientific Papers by Kshitij Sonikshitijsoni