The EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an academic research institute based in the UK, and is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Established in 1994, EMBL-EBI grew out of EMBL’s commitment to making biological data and information accessible to life scientists in all disciplines.
EMBL-EBI serves the scientific community by providing freely available bioinformatics resources, promoting basic research, providing training to scientists at all levels and disseminating cutting-edge technologies to the academic community and industry.
EMBL-EBI interacts with the ELIXIR Hub and Nodes in the:
- production of core and specialised data resources and provision of integrated access to these resources;
- provision of computer resources for data and computationally intensive tasks, and computational access to large reference data sets;
- training on the use of data resources provided by EMBL-EBI services;
- standardisation activities in programmatic access to databases and tools, in biological and medical nomenclature, in controlled vocabularies and ontologies, and in reporting requirements for data deposition and exchange.