EBI organised and hosted the "Frontiers in Visualisation and Human-Computer Interaction '97" conference in November 1997. This is the summary of the conference.

October 8 1997 was a great day for the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus (and all the employees!): HRH The Princess Royal (Princess Anne) officially opened the new campus.

EBI has now fast interactive FASTA, BLAST's and S&W services. The typical wait time for jobs to complete is around 1 to 2 minutes.

The Sanger Centre and EBI jointly provide a service that allows tracking of the progress made in the major genome sequencing projects.

A number of databases that are actively maintained at EBI or in which EBI staff are involved are described in the database issue of Nucleic Acids Research.

Three-dimensional structures of proteins can now be deposited at the EBI. These structures will be automatically incorporated in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Read the full scoop here.