Industry Programme links to Research and Projects at the EBI

The EBI Industry Programme supports it's industry partners by helping them to adapt quickly to, and maximising benefits from, advances in bioinformatics, computational biology, and information technology in general. Below are examples of our research and development that the Industry Programme members have helped to shape and in some instances fund parts of the project work.

ArrayExpress

ArrayExpress is a public repository for microarray data, which is aimed at storing MIAME-compliant data in accordance with MGED recommendations. The ArrayExpress Data Warehouse stores gene-indexed expression profiles from a curated subset of experiments in the repository.

Reactome

The Reactome project is a collaboration among Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The European Bioinformatics Institute, and The Gene Ontology Consortium to develop a curated resource of core pathways and reactions in human biology. The information in this database is authored by biological researchers with expertise in their fields, maintained by the Reactome editorial staff, and cross-referenced with the sequence databases at NCBI, Ensembl and UniProt, the UCSC Genome Browser , HapMap, KEGG(Gene and Compound ), ChEBI, PubMed and GO. In addition to curated human events, inferred orthologous events in 22 non-human species including mouse, rat, chicken, puffer fish, worm, fly, yeast, two plants and E.coli are also available. A description of Reactome has been published in Genome Biology.

EMBOSS

EMBOSS is "The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite". EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.