Squizzato Silvano, Park Young Mi, Buso Nicola, Gur Tamer, Cowley Andrew, Li Weizhong, Uludag Mahmut, Pundir Sangya, Cham Jennifer A, McWilliam Hamish, Lopez Rodrigo
European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridge, UK.
European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridge, UK
Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jul 1;43(W1):W585-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv316. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI-https://www.ebi.ac.uk) provides free and unrestricted access to data across all major areas of biology and biomedicine. Searching and extracting knowledge across these domains requires a fast and scalable solution that addresses the requirements of domain experts as well as casual users. We present the EBI Search engine, referred to here as 'EBI Search', an easy-to-use fast text search and indexing system with powerful data navigation and retrieval capabilities. API integration provides access to analytical tools, allowing users to further investigate the results of their search. The interconnectivity that exists between data resources at EMBL-EBI provides easy, quick and precise navigation and a better understanding of the relationship between different data types including sequences, genes, gene products, proteins, protein domains, protein families, enzymes and macromolecular structures, together with relevant life science literature.
