The `epigraphdb` R package is in the top 40 new CRAN packages. rviews.rstudio.com/2020/09/22/aug…

How will Brexit impact on food safety in Britain? New blog from Marina Vabistsevits @PlotThiggins discusses their Jean Golding Institute data visualisation competition entry which used Food Standards Agency data ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/10/06/vis…

Final reminder of this data science senior research associate post closing tomorrow!

Our 4-year Wellcome-funded PhD programme in Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology is open for applications to start in Oct 2021 findaphd.com/phds/program/w… Bristol Mol-Gen PhD MRC IEU Bristol Population Health Science Institute

IEU blog: reducing drug development costs ieup4.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/11/09/red…

As part of the EpiGraphDB build process, we have inadvertently developed a universal Snakemake/Docker pipeline to create a Neo4j graph. Includes predefined schemas, QC steps, fast import, node conflict resolution. Reuse & collaborations most welcome :) ieup4.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2020/11/17/neo…

Fancy a one-stop shop for data mining the published literature which also enables analyses (including Mendelian randomization) of publicly available multiomic data? If so, EpiGraphDB could be for you doi.org/10.1093/bioinf…

Now live! Mendelian Randomization dictionary, with >100 clear & comprehensive definitions & descriptions for doing, understanding & interpreting MR studies. Kaitlin Hazel Wade (she/her) @DeborahLawlor2 M Carolina Borges gibran hemani Jack Bowden Available here: mr-dictionary.mrcieu.ac.uk

EpiGraphDB version 1.0 epigraphdb.org has been released. Here is the blog post summarising key features biocompute.org.uk/post/epigraphd….

New data management post working on the OpenGWAS database in Bristol bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta… MR-Base ICEP MRC IEU

New postdoc opportunity in Health Data Science at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (@mrcieu) at University of Bristol. Get in touch if interested! bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

We are seeking two health data scientists and a database manager to join MRC IEU in Bristol - please get in touch if interested! bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/?sea…

Just a reminder that we are seeking health data scientists to join the MRC IEU - closing 31st Oct. bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…

R package [epigraphdb](cran.r-project.org/web/packages/e…) for querying [EpiGraphDB](epigraphdb.org) data has been updated on CRAN to v0.2.3 (a minor update). More updates for EpiGraphDB are in the work and to be released this year.

Pleased to share our preprint led by Marynia comparing Mendelian randomization studies and randomized controlled trials using electronic databases with george davey smith MRC IEU medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Also pleased to share our preprint led by Yi Liu on triangulating evidence in health sciences with Annotated Semantic Queries (asq.epigraphdb.org) MRC IEU medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Application closes in 14 days for this 3-year data scientist position in ML and NLP at MRC IEU. Get in touch if interested! #machinelearning #NLP

We are adding a user experience survey (forms.office.com/e/nM71WCid3g) to the ASQ platform asq.epigraphdb.org, which is a natural language query interface to EpiGraphDB. Please give ASQ a try and provide your valuable feedback via the survey!

4 year PhD studentship project fully funded by Roche on literature mining with LLMs and knowledge graphs findaphd.com/phds/project/a…