The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), an international, innovative and interdisciplinary research organisation funded by 27 member states, 2 prospective member states and 2 associate member states. EBI makes the world’s public biological data freely available to the scientific community via a range of services and tools, perform basic research and provide professional training in bioinformatics. The EBI’s databases and tools help scientists share data efficiently, perform complex queries and analyse the results in different ways. EBI’s work supports researchers, who are wet-lab and computational biologists working in all areas of the life sciences, from biomedicine to biodiversity and agri-food research. EBI’s hands-on bioinformatics training help experimental biologists make the most of EBI’s wide range of data resources. EBI also offers online training resources. EMBL-EBI is a partner in several of Europe’s emerging research infrastructures, including the ELIXIR infrastructure for biological information.