The European Commission has committed €57 million to three open life sciences data resources, funding that will keep widely used biological databases running and up to date. The money is delivered as three separate grants under the Horizon Europe programme, and all three resources are managed by the European Bioinformatics Institute, known as EMBL-EBI, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.
The largest share, €30 million, goes to UniProt, a database of protein sequences and their functions. UniProt is run jointly by EMBL-EBI, the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Protein Information Resource. GENCODE, which provides detailed annotation of the human and mouse genomes, receives €19 million and is run by EMBL-EBI together with the Centre for Genomic Regulation. Europe PMC, an open repository of biomedical literature, is allocated €8 million and is supported by an international coalition of science funders.
Researchers across medicine, genetics and biology rely on these resources to search data, compare findings and build new studies, which is why their continued availability matters beyond any single laboratory. EMBL-EBI maintains more than 30 open biological data resources in total, but this package covers only three of them. Keeping the wider set running will continue to depend on support from multiple funders over time.