Annual Scientific Report 2015

Growth of Core Resources
On an average weekday at the end of 2015 we saw in excess of 16 million requests to our websites. The absolute
number of requests is influenced heavily by the way the website is implemented, so these figures should be viewed as
an indicator of trends, and the trend clearly shows continued growth in use of our websites over time. It is even more
difficult to extract information on the number of users from web logs (often a whole organisation appears as a single
user); however, from our records we see that there were 562 million requests to our sites each month, and in 2015
over nine million unique hosts accessed our pages.
In 2015 we ran more than 151 million jobs on the Dispatcher framework, which helps users establish analytical
pipelines to automatically query data and combine it with their own. Job Dispatcher also helps users who are
exploring the data in a more organic way. The average number of jobs per month was 12.6 million (comare to 9.2
million in 2014). The most heavily used tools were InterProScan, NCBI Blast, ClustalW, and Needle.
Growth of data platforms at EMBL-EBI, 2004 through 2015
Requests per day on EMBL-EBI services, 2009 through 2015
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2015 EMBL-EBI Annual Scientific Report