Cover: Design by Guenter Stoesser and Tom Oinn. The EMBL-Outstation European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a centre for research and services in Bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleotide and protein sequences, macromolecular structures, microarray and other types of data. For further details see the following papers in this issue. Stoesser et al., The EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database, Nucleic Acids Res. (2002) 30, 21-26; Hubbard et al., The Ensembl genome database project, Nucleic Acids Res. (2002) 30, 38-41; Fredman et al., HGVbase: a human sequence variation database emphasizing data quality and a broad spectrum of data sources, Nucleic Acids Res. (2002) 30, 387-391.
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