Suggested World Wide Web access points for links to many molecular biology databases and related information:

National Center for Biotechnology Information - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Biology WorkBench - http://workbench.sdsc.edu

University of Minnesota Center for Biomedical Research Informatics - http://cbri.umn.edu

University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute - http://www.mis.umn.edu

Genetics textbook

OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Source: Johns Hopkins University and National Library of Medicine

Scope: Detailed articles on diseases with heritable components

Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim

Map databases

MGD - Mouse Genome Database

Source: Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME)

Scope: genetic information on the lab mouse

Access: http://www.informatics.jax.org

GDB - Genome Data Base

Source: Johns Hopkins University

Scope: chromosome map information including loci, polymorphisms and alleles

Access:http://gdbwww.gdb.org

FlyBase

Source: Biological Laboratories, Harvard University

Scope: genetic and molecular data for Drosophila

Access:http://flybase.bio.indiana.edu

Sequence databases

In addition to individual databases listed below, ENTREZ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez) gathers information from nucleotide and protein sequence databases as well as references to the molecular biology literature from MEDLINE.

Nucleotide sequence databases

GENBANK

Source: National Center for Biotechnology Information,

National Library of Medicine

Scope: comprehensive collection of DNA sequences

Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide

EMBL

Source: European Molecular Biology Laboratory

(Heidelberg, Germany)

Scope: comprehensive collection of DNA sequences

Access: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de, http://www.ebi.ac.uk

DDBJ

Source: DNA Data Bank of Japan, National Institute of Genetics

Scope: comprehensive collection of DNA sequences

Access: http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp

dbEST - Database of Expressed Sequence Tags

Source: National Center for Biotechnology Information,

National Library of Medicine

Scope: sequence amd mapping data on partial, single-pass cDNA sequences or Expressed Sequence Tags

Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST

Protein sequence databases

SWISS-PROT

Source: Medical Biochemistry Department, Centre Medical University, Geneva, Switzerland

Scope: comprehensive collection of protein sequences

Access: http://www.expasy.ch/sprot

PIR - Protein Identification Resource

Source: National Biomedical Research Foundation (D.C.)

Scope: comprehensive collection of protein sequences

Access: http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu

EC - Enzyme Database

Source: Medical Biochemistry Department, Centre Medical University, Geneva, Switzerland

Scope: collection of enzyme codes (EC), nomenclature, catalytic activity, and links to their amino acid sequences.

Access: http://www.expasy.ch/enzyme

PDB - Protein Data Bank

Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY

Scope: 3D structures of biological macromolecules and related information

Access:http://www.rcsb.org/pdb

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Last Updated: 05/31/05