EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2022
Matthew Thakur, Alex Bateman, Cath Brooksbank, Mallory Freeberg, Melissa Harrison, Matthew Hartley, Thomas Keane, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Andrew R. Leach, Maria Levchenko, Sarah Morgan, Ellen M. McDonagh, Sandra Orchard, Irene Papatheodorou, Sameer Velankar, Juan Antonio Vizcaíno, Rick Witham, Barbara Zdrazil, Johanna McEntyre
Abstract
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is one of the world's leading sources of public biomolecular data. Based at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, EMBL-EBI is one of six sites of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe's only intergovernmental life sciences organisation. This overview summarises the status of services that EMBL-EBI data resources provide to scientific communities globally. The scale, openness, rich metadata and extensive curation of EMBL-EBI added-value databases makes them particularly well-suited as training sets for deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, a selection of which are described here. The data resources at EMBL-EBI can catalyse such developments because they offer sustainable, high-quality data, collected in some cases over decades and made openly availability to any researcher, globally. Our aim is for EMBL-EBI data resources to keep providing the foundations for tools and research insights that transform fields across the life sciences.