EMBL-EBI to be HTTPS by default from 1st December

On the 1st December the majority of services hosted on www.ebi.ac.uk will be served over HTTPS by default. Services that are becoming HTTPS by default will automatically redirect users accessing the site on insecure HTTP URLs to secure HTTPS URLs.
Users of EMBL-EBI services may wish to update links, bookmarks or API clients to use the HTTPS URLs.


Service Retirement

Wise2DBA and Promoterwise are scheduled for retirement on 15th April 2018. Alternatives can be found at Exonerate, BWA or BLAT. If you have any concerns, please contact us via support.

Protein Similarity Search

This tool provides sequence similarity searching against protein databases using the FASTA suite of programs. FASTA provides a heuristic search with a protein query. FASTX and FASTY translate a DNA query. Optimal searches are available with SSEARCH (local), GGSEARCH (global) and GLSEARCH (global query, local database).

STEP 1 - Select your databases
    • UniProtKB Taxonomic Subsets
    • UniProt Clusters
    • Patents
    • Structure
    • Other Protein Databases
STEP 2 - Enter your input sequence

a sequence in any supported format:

a file:

STEP 3 - Set your parameters
STEP 4 - Submit your job
(Tick this box if you want to be notified by email when the results are available)
If available, the title will be included in the subject of the notification email and can be used as a way to identify your analysis

If you plan to use these services during a course please contact us.