1. The European Bioinformatics Institute
EMBL-EBI
Katrina Pavelin
Scientific Outreach Officer
Services | Research | Training | Industry
katrina@ebi.ac.uk

2. What is EMBL-EBI?
• Bioinformatics Research & Service Institute
• Non-profit organisation
• Part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
EMBL-EBI

3. The five branches of EMBL
Heidelberg Hamburg Hinxton
• Basic research in Structural biology Bioinformatics
molecular biology
• Administration Grenoble Monterotondo
• EMBO
• 1500 staff
• >60 nationalities
Structural biology Mouse biology
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4. EMBL-EBI’s Mission
• To provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all
facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific
progress
• To contribute to the advancement of biology through basic
investigator-driven research in bioinformatics
• To provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels,
from PhD students to independent investigators
• To help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry
• To coordinate biological data provision across Europe
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5. What is bioinformatics?
• The science of storing,
retrieving and Growth of raw storage
analysing large at EMBL-EBI (in terabytes)
amounts of biological 12000
information 10000
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• An interdisciplinary
Disks (TB)
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science, involving
4000
biologists, computer
scientists and 2000
mathematicians 0
• At the heart of modern Year
biology
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6. Services
www.ebi.ac.uk/services
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7. Databases: molecules to systems Literature and ontologies
Genomes UKPMC, CiteXplore, GO
Ensembl
Ensembl Genomes Protein families,
EGA motifs and domains
Metagenomics InterPro
portal Functional
genomics
Macromolecular
ArrayExpress
Nucleotide sequence structure
Expression Atlas
ENA PDBe
Protein activity
IntAct, PRIDE Pathways
Reactome
Protein Sequences
UniProt
Chemical entities
ChEBI
Systems
Chemogenomics BioModels
ChEMBL BioSamples
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8. EBI’s search service
Access from the
EBI’s homepage
Species selector
allows for easy
comparison
Data organised
according to:
• gene Explore data,
• expression return easily to
• protein your results
• structure
• literature
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9. Research
www.ebi.ac.uk/groups
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Services | Research | Training | Industry

10. Key facts about research at EMBL-EBI
• A unique
environment for
bioinformatics
research
• Nine dedicated
research groups
• Services teams also
carry out R&D
• Research and
services are mutually
supportive
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11. Training
www.ebi.ac.uk/training
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12. Pre- and postdocs at EMBL-EBI
• EMBL International PhD Programme
• Postdoctoral fellowships:
• EIPOD – EMBL-sponsored interdisciplinary fellowships
• ESPOD – EBI–Sanger combined experimental and
computational fellowships
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15. Thank you!
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