EBI: European Bioinformatics Institute

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is an academic research institute located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton near Cambridge (UK), 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.

EBI search service is a gateway to information spanning genes, functional genomics, proteins structures, small molecules, enzymes, interactions, pathways, scientific literature and patent sequences.EBI also provide tools that allow researchers to analyze information and to upload and share their work.

EBI databases includes, European Nucleotide Archive (ENA), Ensemble, ArrayExpress, UniProt, PDBe, IntAct, Reactome, the Gene Expression Atlas, chEMBL, chEBI, CiteXplore.