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Genomic Databases
 Other examples of genomic databases
- E.coli databases - There are several databases for E. coli. The 'E. coli
Genetic Stock Center' (CGSC), maintains a database
of E.coli genetic information, including genotypes and reference information for
the strains in the CGSC collection, gene names, properties, and linkage map,
gene product information, and information on specific mutations. The 'E. coli
Database collection' (ECDC), in Giessen,
Germany, maintains curated gene-based sequence records for E. coli.
EcoCyc
, the 'Encyclopedia
of E. coli Genes and Metabolism' is a database of E. coli genes and metabolic pathways.
- Plant databases - MaizeDB is the database for genetic data on maize.
The 'Plant Genome Information Resource' (PGDIC)
provides access to many different plant genome databases, including chlamydomonas, cotton, alfalfa, wheat, barley,
rye, rice, millet, sorghum and species of solanaceae and trees. MENDEL is a plant-wide
database for plant genes.
- ZFIN - a database for another important model
organism, the zebrafish Brachydanio rerio.
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Genetic databases of economic importance
to humans - these include pig (PIGBASE),
cows (BovBASE), sheep
(SheepBASE) and chicken
(ChickBASE). In addition,
there is a database of mutant phenotypes modelled on Mendelian
Inheritance in Man, Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIM). All these databases are available via the AGIS server and most from the Roslin
Institute server and
from the Japanese Animal Genome Database (JAGD).
- OMIM - is a catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders.
OMIM includes information on genetic variation in humans. There is also
the human mutation server at the EBI, with
links to the many single sequence variation databases. The SRS
(Sequence Retrieval System) interface also provides access to many human mutation databases. GENATLAS also provides a database of human genes,
with links to diseases and maps.
- GeneCards - this resource at the Weizmann Institute
integrates information about human genes from a variety of databases, including
OMIM, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot and the nucleotide
sequence databases.
- Parasite genome - this database
is supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) at the
EBI. It covers the
five ‘targets' of its Tropical Diseases Research programme: Leishmania,
Trypanosoma cruzi, African Trypanosomes, Schistosoma and Filariasis. Databases for
some vectors of parasitic diseases are also available, such as
AnoDB
for Anopheles and AaeDB
for Aedes aegypti.
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