Research

A unique environment for research

The European Bioinformatics Institute has been leading computational biology research since its inception in 1994, with work spanning sequence analysis methods, multi-dimensional statistical analysis and data-driven biological discovery, from plant biology to mammalian development and disease.

Research groups

Research at EMBL-EBI is carried out both in groups devoted solely to research and in some service teams. Most research groups collaborate closely with experimentalists, and some generate experimental data themselves.

Alex Bateman

Senior Team Leader, Protein sequence resources
Pedro Beltrao

Group Leader - Beltrao research group
Ewan Birney

Deputy Director General of EMBL, Director of EMBL-EBI and Senior Scientist
Alvis Brazma

Functional Genomics Senior Team Leader and Senior Scientist
Isidro Cortes Ciriano

Group Leader - Cortes Ciriano group
Rob Finn

Team Leader, Microbiome Informatics
Paul Flicek

Associate Director of EMBL-EBI Services, Senior Scientist and Head of Genes, Genomes & Variation Services
Moritz Gerstung

Group Leader: Computational cancer biology
Nick Goldman

Group Leader, Head of Research and Senior Scientist
Zamin Iqbal

Research Group Leader - Iqbal research group
Thomas Keane

Team Leader, European Genome-phenome Archive and European Variation Archive
Gerard Kleywegt

Senior Team Leader: Molecular and Cellular Structure and Kleywegt Research Group
Andrew Leach

Head of Industry Partnerships and Head of Chemical Biology
John Marioni

Research Group Leader
Irene Papatheodorou

Team Leader - Papatheodorou team: Gene Expression
Evangelia Petsalaki

Group Leader - Petsalaki research group
Janet Thornton

Director Emeritus of EMBL-EBI and Senior Scientist
Virginie Uhlmann

Research Group Leader - Uhlmann research group
Daniel Zerbino

Team Leader, Genome Analysis

Research at EMBL-EBI

Located on the Wellcome Genome Campus just south of Cambridge in the UK, EMBL-EBI is at the centre of one of the highest concentrations of technical and scientific expertise in the world. We are part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, which has a well-integrated experimental and computational research programme on its five sites.

EMBL researchers publish regularly in top-tier journals, with 40% of papers in the top 5% of journals in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (2012–2014). Four EMBL papers are among the top 100 most highly cited papers ever – one in the top 10 and two co-authored by EMBL-EBI researchers.

Publications

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Postdocs at EMBL-EBI

PhD Programme

A new kind of collaboration

Sanger/EBI Single-Cell Genomics Centre