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Annual Report 2025

Services

To offer vital services to scientists in the member states and beyond

EMBL’s unique portfolio of scientific services enables researchers from member states and beyond to access a broad range of world-class infrastructures and resources through a single Europe-wide partner. 

This year, EMBL services drew noteworthy philanthropic attention, recognising EMBL services’ impact on the life science community: Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung extended new support for the continued successful development of EMBL’s Imaging Centre and new philanthropic support from the Klaus Tschira Stiftung was aimed at EMBL’s mobile lab services, as it began fieldwork in freshwater ecosystems.


I actually chose to do my postdoc at EMBL Hamburg because of the unique beamline setup that made my project possible. The whole P14 beamline team worked together to tailor the setup to my experiments. I’m very grateful for their help.

– Kirill Kovalev, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Schneider Group at EMBL Hamburg

Experimental services and facilities

This year marked the beginning of EMBL’s Mobile Lab offering its services beyond the TREC mission, and it did so with the University of Malta. The head of EMBL Rome’s Gene Editing and Virus Facility shared thoughts on providing expertise to member states and beyond. Additionally, unique EMBL Hamburg services enabled research that expanded knowledge of novel light-sensing proteins (cryorhodopsins) and served as an excellent demonstration of its beamlines and their adaptability to specific research projects.

Providing EMBL expertise in Malta

For one month, EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory provided advanced technology, expertise, and training to Malta’s scientific community.

Global health challenges like pandemics and rare diseases do not respect national borders. By expanding beyond Europe and adding the Canadian node, we consolidate the Federated EGA as the world’s most comprehensive, secure, and diverse resource for genomic and health data to tackle these urgent questions.

— Arcadi Navarro, ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Director of the EGA team at the Centre for Genomic Regulation

Molecular data services

EMBL researchers collaborated to build an easy-to-use ‘zoo’ of pre-trained AI models to help biologists and microscopists better analyse biological images. A new online portal now connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research. EMBL also released a comprehensive viral genome database that covers diverse ecosystems to advance our knowledge of virus evolution and ecosystem functions.

A menagerie of deep-learning models

EMBL scientists collaborated to build easy-to-use ‘Zoo’ of pre-trained AI models to help biologists and microscopists better analyse their biological images

EMBL Scientific Services in Numbers

World-Class Experimental Services

EMBL experimental services support academic and industry users in Europe and beyond. 

Graphic showing: >3800
Experimental services users
625
Scientific publications enabled

Openly Accessible Data Resources

EMBL-EBI maintains the world’s most comprehensive range of freely available and up-to-date molecular data resources.  Developed in collaboration with scientists worldwide, these open databases, tools, and software can be accessed by anyone around the world.

Graphic showing: 122  million
Requests to EMBL-EBI data resource websites on average day
127 million
Unique IP addresses
>120,000 
Scientific publications enabled by data resources
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