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The European Bioinformatics Institute [EBI] lies
in the fifty-five acres of landscaped parkland in
rural Cambridgeshire that make up the Wellcome Trust
Genome Campus, which also houses the Wellcome Trust
Sanger Institute. Together, these institutes provide
one of the world's largest concentrations of expertise
in genomics and bioinformatics.
The mission of the
EBI is to ensure that the growing body of information
from molecular biology and genome research is placed
in the public domain and is accessible freely to
all facets of the scientific community in ways that
promote scientific progress.
The EBI serves researchers
in molecular biology, genetics, medicine and agriculture
from academia, and the agricultural, biotechnology,
chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The EBI
does this by building, maintaining and making available
databases and information services relevant to molecular
biology, as well as carrying out research in bioinformatics
and computational molecular biology.
A number of
active research groups are working on problems such
as classifying and understanding proteins and their
interactions, analysing genomic information to discover
networks and other functional entitites within cells,
mathematical analyses of evolutionary models, systems
neurobiology and the development of novel computational
annotation methods to attach knowledge about biological
functions to molecules described in the databases.
Some of the key resources developed, curated and
provided by the EBI include EMBL
Bank [genes], UniProt [proteins], Ensembl [eukaryotic
genomes], the Macromolecular Structures Database,
and ArrayExpress [microarray expression data]. Over
the past few years, the EBI has become a world leader
in integrating these types of data and has become
a key partner in European initiatives to collect
and understand all types of biological information.
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