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【简介】 The roots of the EBI lie in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data Library, which was established in 1980 at the EMBL laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany and was the world's first nucleotide sequence database. The original goal was to establish a central computer database of DNA sequences, rather than have scientists submit sequences to journals. What began as a modest task of abstracting information from literature, soon became a major database activity with direct electronic submissions of data and the need for highly skilled informatics staff. The task grew in scale with the start of the genome projects, and grew in visibility as the data became relevant to research in the commercial sector. It soon became apparent that the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data Library needed better financial security to ensure its long-term viability and to cope with the sheer scale of the task.
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) lies in the fifty-five acres of landscaped parkland in rural Cambridgeshire that make up the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus.
The Campus also houses the Sanger Institute and the UK Medical Research Council Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre (HGMP). Together, the three institutes provide one of the world's largest concentrations of expertise in genomics and bioinformatics. The mission of the EBI is to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is accessible freely to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress.
