The EBI, the European Bioinformatics Institute, is a research center of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) based at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton near Cambridge, Great Britain. Its mission is to provide, in a strictly free manner, data and more generally IT services to the entire scientific community. EBI's activity, therefore, is to collect, preserve, and then distribute the data obtained by researchers working in different fields of life sciences; anywhere from basic biology to clinical medicine to ecology. Well, in three years between 2008