What is the EBI doing for metagenomic researchers?
The EBI resources of the European Nucleotide Archive (in particular Sequence Read Archive and EMBL-Bank), UniProt, InterPro, Ensembl Genomes and IntAct are all used for analysis by metagenomic researchers, but not in an integrated manner. We intend to provide a user friendly interface to these services, promoting their utility in the field of metagenomics. It will enable protein prediction, function analysis, comparison to complete reference genomes and metabolic pathway analysis.