European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
www.ebi.ac.uk
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
The EBI is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.
The
EMBL-EBI lies in the 55 acres of landscaped parkland in rural Cambridgeshire
that make up the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus. The Campus also houses the Wellcome
Trust Sanger Institute, making it one of the world’s largest concentrations of
expertise in genomics and bioinformatics.
The EMBL-EBI grew out of EMBL’s pioneering work to provide public biological databases to the research community. Although we are geographically separated from EMBL’s main headquarters in Heidelberg and its other sites in Grenoble, Hamburg and Monterotondo, the EMBL-EBI is an integral part of EMBL
We collaborate with scientists and engineers all over the world, and provide the infrastructure needed to share data openly in the life sciences.
Understanding how genetics affects the health of humans, plants and animals is essential to advances in disease prevention, food security and biodiversity.
We develop databases, tools and software that make it possible to align, verify and visualise the diverse data produced in publicly-funded research, and make that information freely available to all.