FELICS - Bioinformatics databases for free

FELICS (Free European Life-science Information and Computation Services) is a new EU funded project to make bioinformatics databases available for free to European scientists. Launched today by a partnership of EMBL's EBI, the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, the University of Cologne and the European Patent Office.

The project will build on the EMBL Data Library and will develop, enhance and interlink data resources. It will include many of EBI's familiar databases and add:

• BRENDA (University of Cologne's enzyme database previously available only on licence)
• Information from patent literature to create CheBI (chemical entities of biological interest)

For further information see EMBL's press release