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EMBO Electronic Information Programme

"We are working not on gluing things together but on communicating" Les Grivell, Programme Manager

In the life sciences, a boom in electronic data means that biologists are increasingly going online to search for literature and diverse data types such as genomic sequences or digital images. In addition, the increasingly mobile life scientist is turning to the Web to identify international funding, training and career opportunities.

Integrating online information for life scientists
Desktop availability of online resources should make the search for information easier. The reality is different. Scientists are often faced with the daunting task of first locating the relevant information and then deciphering the search results - more often than not a complex range of data spread across a varity of databases.

The Electronic Information Programme turns information overload into information management through integration, organisation and interlinking of online information.

Activities
E-BioSci a European platform for access and retrieval of full text and factual information in the Life Sciences

Searches on literature full-text based on concepts, keywords or gene symbols
Interactive search refinement
Human gene symbol recognition in full-text
Navigation across different information resources
Cross-language querying (English, French, German)

ORIEL Online Research Information Environment for the Life Sciences providing Software, tools and services.

iHOP - Literature Networking Tool
Java Web-site Building Tools
XML-schemas for genomics
Ontology Organizer

Life Sciences Mobility Consultancy international funding, training and career opportunities in the life sciences

fellowships and grants
training programmes
employment opportunities
potential collaboration partners

Communities@embo building research communities.

Meet the team

Les Grivell, Programme Manager

Ole Hansen, Technical Officer

Anne Seller, Administrator

Sabine Rehberger-Schneider,
Life Science Mobility Consultant

Patricia Codyre,
Communications Officer

Contact

For more information on the programme or its projects

eip@embo.org