Resources at EBI

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is an EMBL Outstation located at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton (UK). The EBI maintains and distributes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence database, Europe’s primary nucleotide sequence data resource, the SwissProt Protein Sequence database, in collaboration with Amos Bairoch of the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics (SIB), TrEMBL a SwissProt complement consisting of translations from EMBL database coding sequences, MSD , the Molecular Structure Database in collaboration with the Protein Data Bank (PDB) in Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven, NY), the Radiation Hybrid database (RHdb) , and other additional molecular biology databases produced in collaboration with other groups. The EBI also provides network services that allow access to the most up-to-date data collections via the Internet through its World Wide Web interfaces and ftp services, also providing database and sequence similarity searches facilities.