European Bioninformatics Institute, International Projects
We are the European node for globally coordinated efforts to collect and disseminate biological data. Many of our databases are household names to biologists – they include EMBL-Bank (DNA and RNA sequences), Ensembl (genomes), ArrayExpress (microarray-based gene-expression data), UniProt (protein sequences), InterPro (protein families, domains and motifs) and MSD (macromolecular structures). Others, such as IntAct (protein–protein interactions), Reactome (pathways) and ChEBI (small molecules), are new resources that help researchers to understand not only the molecular parts that go towards constructing an organism, but how these parts combine to create systems. The details of each database vary, but they all uphold the same principles of service provision.
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