EMBOSS和EMBnet

EMBOSS and EMBnet

笔者撰写的“EMBOSS软件包序列分析程序实例”一文,已经在《生物信息学》期刊2021年第19卷第1期发表。此文介绍欧洲分子生物学开放软件包(European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite,EMBOSS)。EMBOSS是欧洲分子生物学网络组织(European Molecular Biology Network,EMBnet)于上世纪九十年代末启动的以欧洲国家为主的国际合作项目,是生物信息学领域中较早投入使用的大型开源软件包。本文基于笔者亲身经历,回顾EMBOSS项目的来龙去脉,讲述EMBnet三十多年来的发展历程,及其对生物信息开发、服务和教育培训等方面的贡献,从某个侧面为读者特别是年轻读者展示生物信息学发展早期的一段历史。

An article entitled“Application examples of EMBOSS sequence analysis program”has been published in the Chinese Journal of Bioinformatics(Volume19,Issue 1,2021).It made a description of the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite(EMBOSS).Initiated in the late 1990s by the European Molecular Biology Network(EMBnet),EMBOSS is an international collaborative project mainly among European countries.It is one of the critical open source bioinformatics software packages with popular tools used in the bioinformatics field.Based on the author’s own experience,this article tries to look back the ins and outs of the EMBOSS project,to trace the route that the EMBnet was born and became an international organization,and to have an overview of the contribution that EMBnet made to the development,service,education,and training of bioinformatics.Hopefully,it may give readers,especially the younger generations,some hints about the birth and growth of bioinformatics in early days.