<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;" id="docs-internal-guid-2cd35da8-7fff-45bb-bbff-e4cec7d3bab6"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear ,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would like to encourage you to participate in a <strong>survey</strong> that aims to assess the worldwide <strong>value of the bioinformatics resources</strong> available through </span><a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The institute hosts some of the world’s most important collections of biological data including UniProt, Ensembl, ChEMBL, ENA and Europe PubMed Central.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your input is extremely important and will help EMBL-EBI maintain and develop its resources for the global scientific community.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span id="_mce_caret"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EMBL-EBI would be very grateful if you and other users in your organisation could contribute to this study by completing the following survey: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EMBL-EBI_Impact_PE" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/EMBL-EBI_Impact_PE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> . </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The survey takes around 15 minutes and closes on 31 March 2021. T</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">he results of the survey will be anonymized and all personal data treated as confidential.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please share this survey with colleagues and collaborators who use public data resources. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have any questions or comments about the survey please contact impactsurvey@ebi.ac.uk.</span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br></div><div>Kind regards,<br></div><div>Kim De Ruyck<br></div><br><div>-- <br></div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> Kim De Ruyck PhD </span></strong> <strong> </strong><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordinator ELIXIR Belgium</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium</span></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 9pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.elixir-belgium.org/" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">www.elixir-belgium.org</a></span></span> <u><a href="https://twitter.com/ELIXIRnodeBE" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">@ELIXIRnodeBE</a></u></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://eepurl.com/cl-xOX" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Subscribe to our mailing list</span></span></span></a></span></span></strong></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: #1f497d;" class=""></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: #1f497d;" class=""><img src="cid:9a1fa0c326c22e6455d5bb26f527a4c182182fa6@zimbra" data-mce-src="/home/kiuyc@psb.ugent.be/Briefcase/Elixir2.png"></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: #1f497d;" class=""> </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Object"><span class="Object"></span></span></span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>