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The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI;https://www ebi ac uk/) provides freely available data and bioinformatics services to the scientific community, alongside its research activity and training provision The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront a need for the scientific community to work even more cooperatively to effectively tackle a global health crisis EMBL-EBI has been able to build on its position to contribute to the fight against COVID-19 in a number of ways Firstly, EMBL-EBI has used its infrastructure, expertise and network of international collaborations to help build the European COVID-19 Data Platform (https://www covid19dataportal org/), which brings together COVID-19 biomolecular data and connects it to researchers, clinicians and public health professionals By September 2020, the COVID-19 Data Platform has integrated in excess of 170 000 COVID-19 biomolecular data and literature records, collected through a number of EMBL-EBI resources Secondly, EMBL-EBI has strived to continue its support of the life science communities through the crisis, with updated Training provision and improved service provision throughout its resources The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of EMBL-EBI\'s core principles, including international cooperation, resource sharing and central data brokering, and has further empowered scientific cooperation
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