The roots of the EMBL-EBI lie in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data Library (now known as EMBL-Bank), which was established in 1980 at the EMBL laboratories in Heidelberg, Germany and was the world's first nucleotide sequence database.
As raíces do EMBL-EBI son a EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Data Library (agora chamada EMBL-Bank), que se creou en 1980 nos laboratorios EMBL en Heidelberg, Alemaña e foi a primeira base de datos mundial de secuencias de nucleótidos.