The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has been leading computational biology research since its inception in 1994, with work spanning fundamental methods in sequence analysis, multi-dimensional statistical analysis and data-driven biological discovery, from plant biology to mammalian development and disease.

We are highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, regularly publishing high-impact works on sequence and structural alignment, genome analysis, basic biological breakthroughs, algorithms and methods of widespread importance.

Four EMBL papers are among the top 100 most highly cited papers ever.

Located on the Wellcome Genome Campus just south of Cambridge in the UK, EMBL-EBI is at the centre of one of the highest concentrations of technical and scientific expertise in the world. We are part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, which has a well-integrated experimental and computational research programme on its five sites.

EMBL researchers publish regularly in top-tier journals, with 40% of papers in the top 5% of journals in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology (2012–2014). Four EMBL papers are among the top 100 most highly cited papers ever – one in the top 10 and two co-authored by EMBL-EBI researchers.

Publications

Research groups at EMBL-EBI

Research at EMBL-EBI is carried out both in groups devoted solely to research and in some service teams. Most research groups collaborate closely with experimentalists, and some generate experimental data themselves.
Alex Bateman

Alex Bateman

Senior Team Leader, Protein sequence resources

Pedro Beltrao

Pedro Beltrao

Group Leader - Beltrao research group

Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney

Director of EMBL-EBI and Senior Scientist

Alvis Brazma

Alvis Brazma

Senior Team Leader, Functional Genomics

Anton Enright

Anton Enright

Group Leader - Enright research group

Paul Flicek

Paul Flicek

Senior Scientist and Team Leader, Vertebrate Genomics

Moritz Gerstung

Moritz Gerstung

Group Leader: Computational cancer biology

Nick Goldman

Nick Goldman

Group Leader - Goldman research group

Gerard Kleywegt

Gerard Kleywegt

Senior Team Leader: Protein Data Bank in Europe and Kleywegt Research Group

John Marioni

John Marioni

Group Leader - Marioni research group

Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Visiting Group Leader

Oliver Stegle

Oliver Stegle

Group Leader - Stegle research group

Christoph Steinbeck

Christoph Steinbeck

Team Leader, Cheminformatics and metabolism

Sarah Teichmann

Sarah Teichmann

Group Leader - Teichmann research group

Janet Thornton

Janet Thornton

Director Emeritus of EMBL-EBI and Senior Scientist

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