At EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), we help scientists realise the potential of big data in biology, exploiting complex information to make discoveries that benefit humankind.

Who we are:

EMBL-EBI is international, innovative and interdisciplinary, and a champion of open data in the life sciences.

We are part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), an intergovernmental research organisation funded by over 20 member states, prospect and associate member states.

We are situated on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge, UK, one of the world’s largest concentrations of scientific and technical expertise in genomics.