Achievements

EMBnet - Achievements of EMBnet

• EMBnet developed the first complete e-learning system for teaching Bioinformatics (EMBER).

   

• EMBnet compromise with Society is reflected in its active involvement in dealing with relevant problems and diseases (AntiSARS, RBMDB, p53FamTaG)

• EMBnet has pioneered use of Grid technologies in the Biosciences and has been involved in seminal Grid projects (SWEGrid, EGEE, EMBRACE, HealthGrid, WebServices).

   

• From very early on, EMBnet has promoted development of distributed computing services initiatives to share workload among international servers ( (HASSLE, SRSfed, MRSfed, FedBLAST, SIMDAT)

• EMBnet is committed to bringing the latest software algorithms to the user free of charge (EGCG, Pratt, BITS, HoxPred) and continues to develop state of the art public software (EMBOSS) and powerful, easy to use intuitive interfaces (CINEMA, W2H, GeneDoc, WWW2GCG, TOPS, Jalview, wEMBOSS, Jemboss, STACKpack, EMBOSSrunner, eBiotools, WebLab, UTOPIA).

• EMBnet has made major contributions to supercomputing in the Life Sciences as a means to deliver more powerful and advanced services (Bioccelerator, MPSRCH, INSECTS+MOLLUSCS)

• EMBnet has contributed to the development and maintenance of advanced database systems for the Life Sciences (SRS, Bioimage, CpGisle, CLEANUP, Webin & Seqin, GQserv, PRINTS, InterPro, STACKdb, UniProt, NyHITS, ENSEMBL, MitoDrome, YeastBASE, MRS, MitoRes)

• EMBnet was the first to come up with advanced solutions for automated database distribution using Internet (NDT, SynCron)

   

• The Ping project was for a long time the only existing project giving continuous information about network efficiency across the whole of Europe.

   

• EMBnet had the first gopher and World Wide Web servers in biology (CSC BioBox).