title: The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2016: Data growth and integration.
abstract: New technologies are revolutionising biological research and its applications by making it easier and cheaper to generate ever-greater volumes and types of data. In response, the services and infrastructure of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, www.ebi.ac.uk) are continually expanding: total disk capacity increases significantly every year to keep pace with demand (75 petabytes as of December 2015), and interoperability between resources remains a strategic priority. Since 2014 we have launched two new resources: the European Variation Archive for genetic variation data and EMPIAR for two-dimensional electron microscopy data, as well as a Resource Description Framework platform. We also launched the Embassy Cloud service, which allows users to run large analyses in a virtual environment next to EMBL-EBI's vast public data resources.
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Charles E
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4145-8048
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK comms@ebi.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mary Todd
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Bergman
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Finn
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cochrane
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Ewan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Birney
authors.affiliation: European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Apweiler
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology; D062126:Databases, Chemical; D016208:Databases, Factual; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D030562:Databases, Protein; D005796:Genes; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016678:Genome; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration