The European Bioinformatics Institute
The home for big data in biology
At EMBL-EBI, we use bioinformatics — the science of storing, sharing and analysing biological data — to help people everywhere understand how living systems work, and what makes them change.
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Featured events
26 Jan 2017 - 26 Jan 2017
27 Jan 2017 - 27 Jan 2017
This workshop will give an introduction to the basic concepts of ontologies and how they are useful in biological...
30 Jan 2017 - 3 Feb 2017
This workshop will give insights and practical experience in data visualisation for exploring biological data.
Latest news
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How a knowledge bank could be used to find the best treatment option for people with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
Buffering mechanism protects embryonic development
EMBL scientists uncover buffering mechanisms that protect an embryo’s development from detrimental effects of genetic variation
Happy anniversary, PDBe!
As PDBe looks back on its 20th year in operation, EMBL-EBI Director Ewan Birney reflects on nine proteins and complexes whose structures make life as we know it.
Our mission
- To provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community
- To contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research
- To provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels
- To help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry
- To support, as an ELIXIR node, the coordination of biological data provision throughout Europe.