Please join us in welcoming Fred to the Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) team!

Fred joined us as a Senior Developer on 2nd November, 2026 and brings experience in software development and working with data-driven systems. He will be building the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) validation framework, designing the technology stack and investigating Docker-based templates to support…

We are delighted to announce that in September 2026, the Collaborative Open Omics (COPO) project team commenced collaboration with the NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) and Research Software Engineering (RSE) teams from the University of Sheffield (UoS) on the Shared Data Infrastructure for Climate Biodiversity Research (ARIA TA4) project, supported by funding from the Advanced Research an…

We are pleased to introduce a new enhancement. Submissions can now be made directly to your European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) Webin account from COPO.

This new functionality took effect from September 2026. It gives users greater control over ownership of their published metadata submissions while allowing them to update their metadata directly through their ENA Webin account. Any metadata updat…