# EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute

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## TL;DR

Europe's public data institute for molecular biology, running Ensembl, ChEMBL, Europe PMC, the European Genome-phenome Archive and Open Targets.

## Summary

EMBL-EBI is the bioinformatics site of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (founded 1974; the EBI opened in Hinxton in 1994). It maintains open resources that cancer research runs on: Ensembl genome annotation, UniProt (with SIB and PIR), ChEMBL drug and bioactivity data, the PDBe structure archive, Expression Atlas, Europe PMC literature, the European Genome-phenome Archive for controlled-access patient genomes, and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database built with Google DeepMind. It is a founding partner of Open Targets with the Sanger Institute and pharmaceutical companies, and trains thousands of scientists a year. EMBL's Heidelberg and other sites contribute structural, cell and imaging biology.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: EMBL-EBI; European Bioinformatics Institute; European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- City: Hinxton, GB
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://www.ebi.ac.uk

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Bioinformatics_Institute
- Homepage: https://www.ebi.ac.uk
- Open Targets: https://www.opentargets.org
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org

## Connected records

- collections: [DrugBank & ChEMBL](https://onco.cc/collections/drugbank-chembl/), [Open Targets Platform](https://onco.cc/collections/open-targets/), [PubMed & Europe PMC](https://onco.cc/collections/pubmed-europepmc/)
- companies: [Isomorphic Labs](https://onco.cc/companies/isomorphic-labs/)
- fronts: [AI & Computation](https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/), [Drug Discovery Platforms](https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/)
- technologies: [AI-driven drug & target discovery](https://onco.cc/technologies/ai-drug-design/), [Proteomics & phosphoproteomics](https://onco.cc/technologies/proteomics/), [RNA sequencing & expression profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/rna-seq/), [Whole-exome & whole-genome sequencing](https://onco.cc/technologies/wes-wgs/)
- institutions: [Wellcome Sanger Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/wellcome-sanger/)
- people: [Ewan Birney](https://onco.cc/people/ewan-birney/), [Julio Saez-Rodriguez](https://onco.cc/people/julio-saez-rodriguez/)
- bottlenecks: [Data silos](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/), [Knowledge reaches practice too slowly](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/)

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