Since its creation in 1988, EMBnet has evolved from an informal network of individuals in charge of maintaining biological databases into the only organisation worldwide bringing bioinformatics professionals to work together to serve the expanding fields of genetics and molecular biology. Although composed predominantly of academic Institutes (Nodes), EMBnet gains an important added dimension from its individual members. The success of EMBnet has been increasing the number of organisations and individuals outside Europe up to becoming an international network. For this reason in 2010, EMBnet was officially renamed as EMBnet – The Global Bioinformatics Network with members in Asia, Africa, Australia and America.
Organisational members | Representant | Institute |
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Belgium | David Coornaert | Haute École en Hainaut |
Brazil | Ana Tereza Vasconcelos | The Brazilian Academy of Sciences |
China | Yiming Bao (Jingchu Luo until 2020) | National Genomic Data Center |
Colombia | Emiliano Barreto Hernández | National University of Colombia |
Greece | Dimitris Vlachakis | Agricultural University of Athens |
Italy | Domenica D’Elia | National Research Council |
Mexico | Cesar Bonavides | National Autonomous University of Mexico |
Nigeria | Andreas Gisel | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
Slovakia | Lubos Klucar | Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Sri Lanka | Kanchana Senanayake (Prof. Kamani Tennekoon unitl 2021) | University of Colombo |
Sweden | Erik Bongcam-Rudloff | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |