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- 1. The European BioinformaticsInstitute EMBL-EBI Katrina Pavelin Scientific Outreach Officer Services | Research | Training | Industry katrina@ebi.ac.uk
- 2. What is EMBL-EBI? • Bioinformatics Research & Service Institute • Non-profit organisation • Part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL-EBI
- 3. The five branchesof EMBL Heidelberg Hamburg Hinxton • Basic research in Structural biology Bioinformatics molecular biology • Administration Grenoble Monterotondo • EMBO • 1500 staff • >60 nationalities Structural biology Mouse biology EMBL-EBI
- 4. EMBL-EBI’s Mission • To provide freely available data and bioinformatics services to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress • To contribute to the advancement of biology through basic investigator-driven research in bioinformatics • To provide advanced bioinformatics training to scientists at all levels, from PhD students to independent investigators • To help disseminate cutting-edge technologies to industry • To coordinate biological data provision across Europe EMBL-EBI
- 5. What is bioinformatics? •The science of storing, retrieving and Growth of raw storage analysing large at EMBL-EBI (in terabytes) amounts of biological 12000 information 10000 8000 • An interdisciplinary Disks (TB) 6000 science, involving 4000 biologists, computer scientists and 2000 mathematicians 0 • At the heart of modern Year biology EMBL-EBI
- 6. Services www.ebi.ac.uk/services EMBL-EBI Services | Research | Training | Industry
- 7. Databases: molecules tosystems Literature and ontologies Genomes UKPMC, CiteXplore, GO Ensembl Ensembl Genomes Protein families, EGA motifs and domains Metagenomics InterPro portal Functional genomics Macromolecular ArrayExpress Nucleotide sequence structure Expression Atlas ENA PDBe Protein activity IntAct, PRIDE Pathways Reactome Protein Sequences UniProt Chemical entities ChEBI Systems Chemogenomics BioModels ChEMBL BioSamples EMBL-EBI
- 8. EBI’s search service Access from the EBI’s homepage Species selector allows for easy comparison Data organised according to: • gene Explore data, • expression return easily to • protein your results • structure • literature EMBL-EBI
- 9. Research www.ebi.ac.uk/groups EMBL-EBI Services | Research | Training | Industry
- 10. Key facts aboutresearch at EMBL-EBI • A unique environment for bioinformatics research • Nine dedicated research groups • Services teams also carry out R&D • Research and services are mutually supportive EMBL-EBI
- 11. Training www.ebi.ac.uk/training EMBL-EBI Services | Research | Training | Industry
- 12. Pre- and postdocsat EMBL-EBI • EMBL International PhD Programme • Postdoctoral fellowships: • EIPOD – EMBL-sponsored interdisciplinary fellowships • ESPOD – EBI–Sanger combined experimental and computational fellowships EMBL-EBI
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- 15. Thank you! EMBL-EBI