Sustainable access to the world’s largest
biomolecular data resources
EMBL
Rupert Lueck | EMBL
What is EMBL
• Europe’s centre of excellence in life
science research, services and training
• Intergovernmental organization
• 26 member states
• 237 M€ budget
• Majority is core funding by MS
to run big infrastructure
• Competitive external funding
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6 Sites in Europe – over 1700 people – 80+ nationalities
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Structural
biology
Hamburg
Life sciences
Heidelberg
Epigenetics
and
neurobiology
Rome
Bioinformatics
Hinxton
EMBL-EBI
Structural
biology
Grenoble
Tissue biology
and disease
modelling
Barcelona
Advanced
training
EMBL’s missions
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Basic
research
Services
Technology
development
& transfer
Integration
of life science
research
Trusted Data Resources & Analysis Services
Literature & ontologies
• Experimental Factor
Ontology
• Gene Ontology
• BioStudies
• Europe PMC
Chemical biology
• ChEBI
• ChEMBL
• SureChEMBL
Molecular structures
• Protein Data Bank in Europe
• Electron Microscopy Data Bank
Gene, protein & metabolite expression
• Expression Atlas
• Metabolights
• PRIDE
• RNA Central
Protein sequences,
families & motifs
• InterPro
• Pfam
• UniProt
Genes, genomes & variation
• Ensembl
• Ensembl Genomes
• GWAS Catalog
• Metagenomics portal
Systems
• BioModels
• BioSamples
• Enzyme Portal
• IntAct
• Reactome
Molecular Archives
• European Nucleotide Archive
• European Variation Archive
• European Genome-phenome Archive
• ArrayExpress
• EMBL-EBI data
• EMBL-EBI services
• EGI & ELIXIR AAI
Hosted and operated by EMBL-EBI
Reusable Data – Curated, standardised, integrated, freely available and sustainable
Tools & Services
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/services
Big Data - Big Demand
38 million
requests to EMBL-EBI websites
every day
EMBL-EBI delivered
152 million
jobs to its users in 2016
Scientists at over
3.2 million
unique IP addresses use
EMBL-EBI websites
200 petabytes
of storage capacity
in our data centres
History of cloud activities
• Helix Nebula Science Cloud
• Commercial Clouds
• Embassy Cloud
• GPU Cloud
• EOSCpilot
• EOSC-hub
• EOSC-Life
• ...
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EMBL Partnerships
Integration of life science research in Europe
8 28/11/2018
Shaping science
policy and strategy
Fostering international
collaboration

EMBL-Sustainable Access to the World's Largest Biomolecular Data Resources

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    Sustainable access tothe world’s largest biomolecular data resources EMBL Rupert Lueck | EMBL
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    What is EMBL •Europe’s centre of excellence in life science research, services and training • Intergovernmental organization • 26 member states • 237 M€ budget • Majority is core funding by MS to run big infrastructure • Competitive external funding 2 28/11/2018
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    6 Sites inEurope – over 1700 people – 80+ nationalities 3 28/11/2018 Structural biology Hamburg Life sciences Heidelberg Epigenetics and neurobiology Rome Bioinformatics Hinxton EMBL-EBI Structural biology Grenoble Tissue biology and disease modelling Barcelona
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    Trusted Data Resources& Analysis Services Literature & ontologies • Experimental Factor Ontology • Gene Ontology • BioStudies • Europe PMC Chemical biology • ChEBI • ChEMBL • SureChEMBL Molecular structures • Protein Data Bank in Europe • Electron Microscopy Data Bank Gene, protein & metabolite expression • Expression Atlas • Metabolights • PRIDE • RNA Central Protein sequences, families & motifs • InterPro • Pfam • UniProt Genes, genomes & variation • Ensembl • Ensembl Genomes • GWAS Catalog • Metagenomics portal Systems • BioModels • BioSamples • Enzyme Portal • IntAct • Reactome Molecular Archives • European Nucleotide Archive • European Variation Archive • European Genome-phenome Archive • ArrayExpress • EMBL-EBI data • EMBL-EBI services • EGI & ELIXIR AAI Hosted and operated by EMBL-EBI Reusable Data – Curated, standardised, integrated, freely available and sustainable Tools & Services https://www.ebi.ac.uk/services
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    Big Data -Big Demand 38 million requests to EMBL-EBI websites every day EMBL-EBI delivered 152 million jobs to its users in 2016 Scientists at over 3.2 million unique IP addresses use EMBL-EBI websites 200 petabytes of storage capacity in our data centres
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    History of cloudactivities • Helix Nebula Science Cloud • Commercial Clouds • Embassy Cloud • GPU Cloud • EOSCpilot • EOSC-hub • EOSC-Life • ... 28/11/20187
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    EMBL Partnerships Integration oflife science research in Europe 8 28/11/2018 Shaping science policy and strategy Fostering international collaboration