de.NBI (BMBF)

German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure & ELIXIR-DE

de.NBI is a national, academic, and non-profit research infrastructure established in 2015 and supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Its primary objectives include providing top-tier bioinformatics tools and services for life sciences and biomedicine, offering extensive training through workshops and courses, and supplying cloud computing resources to academia in Germany. The initiative facilitates knowledge transfer between academia and industry via its Industrial Forum and promotes collaboration within the German bioinformatics community and international networks like ELIXIR Europe. Comprising eight interconnected service centers and many research groups. Additionally, since August 2016, it has operated as the German Node of ELIXIR. As of 2022, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH has been tasked with consolidating de.NBI's efforts.

Member Institutions
Berlin Institute of Health @Charité
Bielefeld University
DKFZ Heidelberg
EMBL Heidelberg
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Freie Universität Berlin
Helmholtz Munich
Justus Liebig University Gießen
Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg
Medical Proteome Center, Ruhr-University Bochum
Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale
Leibniz Institute on Aging Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute, Jena
Leipzig University
Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Lung Center
Saarland University, Saarbrücken
University of Bremen
University of Hamburg
University of Tübingen

Funding