The European Bioinformatics Institute's data resources: towards systems biology

@article{Brooksbank2005TheEB,
  title={The European Bioinformatics Institute's data resources: towards systems biology},
  author={Cath Brooksbank and Graham Cameron and Janet M. Thornton},
  journal={Nucleic Acids Research},
  year={2005},
  volume={33},
  pages={D46 - D53}
}
Genomic and post-genomic biological research has provided fine-grain insights into the molecular processes of life, but also threatens to drown biomedical researchers in data. Moreover, as new high-throughput technologies are developed, the types of data that are gathered en masse are diversifying. The need to collect, store and curate all this information in ways that allow its efficient retrieval and exploitation is greater than ever. The European Bioinformatics Institute's (EBI's) databases… 
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