To this end, in 1992, the EMBL Council voted to establish the European Bioinformatics Institute and to locate it at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the United Kingdom where it would be in close proximity to the major sequencing efforts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
Para isto, en 1992, o EMBL Council votou crear o European Bioinformatics Institute e situalo no Wellcome Trust Genome Campus en Reino Unido, onde estaría próximo ao maior esforzo de secuenciación daquela época realizado polo Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.