NBIS
The acronym NBIS refers to several distinct organizations. The original and principal subject of this wiki is the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS), a distributed national research infrastructure that provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community[^c1]. Hosted by Uppsala University, the infrastructure employs more than 120 bioinformaticians, system developers, and data stewards across Sweden[^c2], constitutes the SciLifeLab Bioinformatics platform, and forms the Swedish node in ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for biological information[^c3]. Its mission is to enable world-class life science research and maximise the scientific and societal impact of collected data[^c31].
The bioinformatics infrastructure traces its origins to 2008 with the initiation of BILS; the Wallenberg Advanced Bioinformatics Infrastructure (WABI) followed in 2012, and in 2016 NBIS was established through the fusion of four infrastructures, of which BILS and WABI were the largest[^c5]. The AIDA Data Hub and the BioImage Informatics Facility joined in 2021[^c6]. Sweden is a founding member of ELIXIR, and NBIS constitutes the national node[^c8]. The infrastructure is funded by the Swedish Research Council through its Council for Research Infrastructures and is supported by Science for Life Laboratory, major Swedish universities, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, NordForsk, and the European Commission[^c11].
Since late 2025, the acronym NBIS has also become associated with Nebius Group N.V., an AI cloud company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker NBIS[^c39]. Nebius focuses on developing full-stack infrastructure to service the global AI industry[^c34], operating under a model often referred to as GPU-as-a-Service[^c36]. The company emerged from a 2024 reorganization of the former Dutch parent of Yandex, completing a $5.4 billion divestment of its Russian assets and retaining a portfolio of engineers, AI patents, and data center assets[^c35]. In March 2026, Meta's commitment grew from a roughly $3 billion contract into a $27 billion five-year agreement[^c37], and combined with Microsoft, committed contract value reached approximately $46 billion[^c38]. In July 2026 the company introduced an asset-light business model[^c43] under which infrastructure partners deploy Nebius's full-stack AI cloud platform in their own AI data centers. In its first full year as an independent company, Nebius reported 2025 revenue of $529.8 million, up 479% from the prior year[^c41], and raised its 2026 capital expenditure plan to $20–25 billion as it scaled data center capacity[^c42].
A third referent is the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS), a United States federal program administered by the Federal Highway Administration that provides guidelines for bridge inspections and the collection of National Bridge Inventory data[^c40].