To our government officials: Please invest our tax money in science, not in stupid wars.

Let me explain... while Python is keeping busy my laptop doing number crunching, I thought I'd share with you part of process of updating GNU Health HIS genomic packages to the latest genes, symbols, human natural variants and their phenotypes / diseases for 2026. Quite a lot of work, for the betterment of the society, ad honorem.

So again to all in @EUCommission, instead of putting millions of euros in weapons and in the macabre business of war, invest in science, education and healthcare. Thank you.

#OpenScience #GNUHealth #GNU #bioinformatics #genomics #HUGO #UniProt #genetics #health #PublicHealth

My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs

https://quantixed.org/2026/04/16/my-domain-proteome-wide-scanning-of-tmds/

#science #bioinformatics #CellBiology #proteins #Rstats #Uniprot

User benefits of #uniprot are estimated to be on the order of 20 times higher than operational costs https://www.sib.swiss/news/uniprot-user-benefits-up-to-39-times-higher-than-operational-costs

#infrastructure #opendata #curation #FAIRdata #proteins

#UniProt The largest open+free #knowledgegraph in the life sciences. I will be talking about the why and the use cases at #semantics2025 5th of September 2025. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

https://2025-eu.semantics.cc/page/sessions?page=1nZsC6p2V3Yk73axR9Jl1NWq1IhVpkqtN

Interesting in his #ISMBECCB2025 keynote that Amos Bairoch described as the worst decision of his career: caving to USA pressure to switch from funding model of free to academics & non-profits to use #SwissProt / #UniProt (with no login barrier), but paid access to Industry - to a free-to-all model funded by an NIH grant.

[I suspect industry lobbying at NIH there. One issue with grants is they are typically fixed term. Also, this would have been a very strong precedent for other DBs to follow - would have been more sustainable ecosystem?]