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. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D9-D17.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1098.

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2022

Matthew Thakur  1 , Alex Bateman  1 , Cath Brooksbank  1 , Mallory Freeberg  1 , Melissa Harrison  1 , Matthew Hartley  1 , Thomas Keane  1 , Gerard Kleywegt  1 , Andrew Leach  1 , Mariia Levchenko  1 , Sarah Morgan  1 , Ellen M McDonagh  1   2 , Sandra Orchard  1 , Irene Papatheodorou  1 , Sameer Velankar  1 , Juan Antonio Vizcaino  1 , Rick Witham  1 , Barbara Zdrazil  1 , Johanna McEntyre  1
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EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2022

Matthew Thakur et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is one of the world's leading sources of public biomolecular data. Based at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK, EMBL-EBI is one of six sites of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe's only intergovernmental life sciences organisation. This overview summarises the status of services that EMBL-EBI data resources provide to scientific communities globally. The scale, openness, rich metadata and extensive curation of EMBL-EBI added-value databases makes them particularly well-suited as training sets for deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, a selection of which are described here. The data resources at EMBL-EBI can catalyse such developments because they offer sustainable, high-quality data, collected in some cases over decades and made openly availability to any researcher, globally. Our aim is for EMBL-EBI data resources to keep providing the foundations for tools and research insights that transform fields across the life sciences.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Web requests (yellow, A) and Unique IP visits (blue, B) to EMBL-EBI data resources, 2018–2022.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
(A) Annual (yellow) and cumulative (blue) data deposition into EMBL-EBI archival data resources. (B) Annual deposition into nine archival resources. Note the logarithmic scale. and rapid rate of growth for the Imaging and cryo-electron microscopy resources Bioimage Archive, EMPIAR and EMDB. (C) Annual quarterly data growth for the Bioimage Archive, EMPIAR and EMDB imaging and cryo-electron microscopy data resources. Note the logarithmic scale.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Example results from the Molecular Targets Platform, a US National Cancer Institute-supported instance of the Open Targets Platform with a focus on preclinical paediatric oncology data.
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