We present an update of the EBI Search engine, an easy-to-use fast text search and indexing system with powerful data navigation and retrieval capabilities. The interconnectivity that exists between data resources at EMBL-EBI provides easy, quick and precise navigation and a better understanding of the relationship between different data types that include nucleotide and protein sequences, genes, gene products, proteins, protein domains, protein families, enzymes and macromolecular structures,

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... s well as the life science literature. EBI Search provides a powerful RESTful API that enables its integration into thirdparty portals, thus providing 'Search as a Service' capabilities, which are the main topic of this article.