THE EUROPEAN-BIOINFORMATICS-INSTITUTE (EBI) DATABASES

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) maintains and distributes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence database, Europe's primary nucleotide seq uence data resource. The EBI also maintains and distributes the SWISS- PROT Protein Sequence database, in collaboration with Amos Bairoch of the University of Geneva. Over fifty additional specialist molecular b iology databases, as well as software and documentation of interest to molecular biologists are available. The EBI network services include database searching and sequence similarity searching facilities.