 Explosive growth in biological data
Recent years have seen an explosive growth in biological
data, which is usually no longer published in a conventional sense, but
deposited in a database and assigned a unique identifying number for
quotation in publications.
Sequence data
from mega-sequencing projects may not even be linked to a conventional
publication. This trend and the need for computational analyses of the
data has made databases essential tools for biological research.
The goal of this material is to describe the different
molecular biology databases available to researchers. There are so many
specialised databases, that it is not reasonable to list the URLs of
all of them, especially since this category of databases is quite
changeable and any list provided here would soon be outdated. For
example 'Karyn's Genomes'
an information resource about all organisms whose genomes have been
completely sequenced, this could be placed in either the 'Genomic Databases' section or 'Bibliographic Databases' section.
However, the Expasy bioinformatics team in Switzerland do
have a list
of information sources for molecular biologists, which is kept
constantly up-to-date.
Please select a topic:
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