The European Bioinformatics Institute: empowering cooperation in response to a global health crisis.
Nucleic Acids Res
; 49(D1): D29-D37, 2021 01 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-947664
ABSTRACT
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI; https//www.ebi.ac.uk/) provides freely available data and bioinformatics services to the scientific community, alongside its research activity and training provision. The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront a need for the scientific community to work even more cooperatively to effectively tackle a global health crisis. EMBL-EBI has been able to build on its position to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 in a number of ways. Firstly, EMBL-EBI has used its infrastructure, expertise and network of international collaborations to help build the European COVID-19 Data Platform (https//www.covid19dataportal.org/), which brings together COVID-19 biomolecular data and connects it to researchers, clinicians and public health professionals. By September 2020, the COVID-19 Data Platform has integrated in excess of 170 000 COVID-19 biomolecular data and literature records, collected through a number of EMBL-EBI resources. Secondly, EMBL-EBI has strived to continue its support of the life science communities through the crisis, with updated Training provision and improved service provision throughout its resources. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of EMBL-EBI's core principles, including international cooperation, resource sharing and central data brokering, and has further empowered scientific cooperation.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Viral Proteins
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Information Storage and Retrieval
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Computational Biology
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Databases, Nucleic Acid
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SARS-CoV-2
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Nucleic Acids Res
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Nar
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