Another year, another BGA on the horizon! Once again we are offering free, open and completely online practical workshops on tools that underpin the EBP. Find out more and sign up @ thebgacademy.org and then join the conversation on our Discord; discord.gg/GEc2F7ye2G

It’s only June and we already have 20 fantastic sessions confirmed for BGA24! These cover manual-curation, assembly pipelines, annotation, tools for manipulation and exploration and more! You can find out more at thebgacademy.org! #BGA #bioinformatics #EBP #genomics

It's the 6-week countdown to BGA24, and we currently sit at 30 unique sessions! You can join us at discord.gg/HBPytGx6sU to keep up to date with information and other attendees! Session list: thebgacademy.org/BGA24/BGA24 #BGA24 #Bioinformatics #Biodiversity #Genomics

Less than 4 weeks to BGA24 we have 38 sessions, including Collaborative Annotation with Apollo3 (Matthew Berriman), Assembling VGP genomes in Galaxy (Delphine Larivière) and the Colora Assembly Pipeline (Lia Obinu) Sign up here: thebgacademy.fillout.com/attendee_form

2 and a half weeks until BGA starts and all of our sessions are fully booked! However, we will be uploading everything to YouTube, and the GitHub repo's will have everything you need to follow along! GoaT by Cibele Sotero-Caio ASCC by @EerikAunin GFastar by Giulio Formenti

15 days until BGA24 now and just look at the range of countries people are signing up from! You can see more @ thebgacademy.org And join the Discord @ discord.gg/A8jEB6ZV

8 days and counting until we get some amazing sessions on: JBrowse2 - JBrowse Smudgeplot - @KamilSJaron EBP Informatics Talks (1 - 4) - Xiaofeng Wei More at thebgacademy.org

6 Days until BGA begins! We have >4500 session signups and still rising! TreeVal - Damon-lee Pointon , Will Eagles ,Yumi Sims Verko - Sergey Koren Annotation - José G. Pérez-Silva

Our session on TreeVal starts in 10 minutes! If you didn't get a link we will be streaming the session on our YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCJPtl…

It's Week 2 of BGA! I hope you're all ready for some more fantastic sessions, the first is Alex Sweeten at 3pm Universal Time with ModDotPlot!

More fantastic sessions to come tomorrow with: Tree of Life Core Lab Q/A session Darwin Tree of Life EBP-IT Sessions 3 & 4 chaired by Cibele Sotero-Caio and Xiaofeng Wei Genomes on a Tree - EBP with Cibele Sotero-Caio Catch up on youtube.com/@thebiodiversi… or join us at discord.gg/xX8SN4P4

Morning Everyone Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have had to update the timetable for the last 2 days of BGA24. You can catch up on BGA24 here: youtube.com/@thebiodiversi… Darwin Tree of Life EMBL-EBI Local Contexts Earth BioGenome Project Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) UConn EEB Department #BGA24 #biodiversity #Genomics

Our session on "Assembly Screen for Cobionts and Contaminants" w/ Darwin Tree of Life's Eerik Aunin and Damon-lee Pointon is starting at 12pm UTC! Join us on discord.gg/3npv7y9j or on YouTube youtube.com/@thebiodiversi…