Use value
11 hours/week per user saved, leading to over £11.8bn/year in productivity gains across the public and private sectors
Using bioinformatics to make discoveries that benefit humankind
We advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and enable solutions for global challenges such as infectious diseases, food insecurity and loss of biodiversity.
We provide
A wealth of data
Open access biological data and infrastructure
Data analysis tools
Cutting-edge data analysis software and research methodology
Training
World-class bioinformatics training for all levels
Industry partnerships
Knowledge transfer with a range of industries
EMBL-EBI’s economic impact
An independent report by Frontier Economics has found that EMBL-EBI data resources are a critical global infrastructure for the life sciences, delivering multi-billion-pound value every year.
Cost-benefit analysis
108 times higher benefits than the cost of maintaining the EMBL-EBI open data resources
Foundational data infrastructure
71% of respondents say EMBL-EBI enables work that would otherwise be impossible or require significant additional time & effort
Specialist communities we support
Communities we support
AI and machine learning
The vast amounts of high quality data we manage is essential for training new AI tools for the life sciences.
Human health and disease
We provide biodata resources, research and training that make precision medicine possible.
Biodiversity
We enable major international biodiversity initiatives to store, share and analyse species data for generations to come.
Explore our top stories from 2025 and find out how open data and AI are supporting advances across human health and the life sciences.
Case studies
Explore landmark examples of how EMBL-EBI’s data resources, tools and bioinformatics research lead to impact.
Case studies
AlphaFold
Open data stored at EMBL-EBI played a pivotal role in the development of the revolutionary AlphaFold AI.
Enabling genomic medicine
EMBL-EBI data resources are used to deliver thousands of genetic diagnostics to patients every month.
Unlocking biodiversity data
Economic report shows strong return on investment for project sequencing all complex life in the UK and Ireland.
Supporting a global community
This map shows real time requests for data arriving from active users of our data resources around the world. A request could range from an individual search query about a gene or protein to a bulk download of millions of biodata records for reuse in a downstream application.
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