EMBiology

EmBiology (formerly EMBiology) is a web-based Software as a service tool from Elsevier in which researchers can view biological relationships between entities, such as genes, proteins, and cells.^[1]

Launched in 2023, EmBiology queries a Biological Knowledge Graph with 1.4 million entities connected by 15.7 million relationships.^[1] It uses a Sankey diagram to visualize search findings, and displays "snippets" of text from relevant scientific literature.

Previous Version

EmBiology was originally launched as EMBiology in 2005 as a life science bibliographic database in a partnership with Ovid Technologies as a smaller version of Embase.^[2]

Content Coverage

EmBiology Data sources include:^[3]

• 7.2 million PubMed abstracts

• 430,000 from Clinicaltrials.gov

• 7.2 million Full-text articles from 936 Elsevier journals and 939 non-Elsevier journals

Biological Concepts

The following biological concepts are included in EmBiology:^[4]

Concept	Description
Drugs & chemicals	Naturally occurring metabolites, small molecules found in cell, drugs (incl. small molecules & biologics)
Diseases	Health conditions and disease terms
Proteins	Represents both genes and the gene products, including proteins and miRNAs
Functional classes	Proteins classes based on biological function
Protein complexes	One or more polypeptides that form a complex via physical interactions
Genetic variant	Variants searchable by SNPID and text
Cells	Mammalian cell types & cell lines
Cell Process	Biological processes (e.g., apoptosis, inflammation)
Organs	Mammalian organ types
Tissues	Mammalian tissue types
Viruses	An agent that causes infectious diseases
Clinical parameter	Measured parameters of the human body used in clinical practice
Treatment	Non-chemical treatments and environmental conditions
Cell object	Organelles, cell structural components