The EMBL-EBI is a non-profit bioinformatics research and service institute that is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. It has over 1500 staff from more than 60 nationalities working across its five branches. EMBL-EBI provides freely available data and bioinformatics services to support scientific research and discovery. Its mission is to advance biology through both basic investigator-driven bioinformatics research and by providing advanced training and cutting-edge technologies to scientists and industry.