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2Can Support Portal - Database Browsing
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Introduction
There are many interfaces available which allow searching of multiple
databases with various input/output options.
The most commonly used interfaces are:
EB-eye, The system is developed on top of the Apache Lucene project framework,
which is an Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search
engine library written entirely in Java. It uses this technology to
index EBI databases in various formats (e.g. flatfiles, XML dumps, OBO
format, etc.) and provides very fast access to the EBI's data resources.
The system allows the user to search globally across all EBI databases
or individually in selected resources by using an Advance search.
SRS, which is produced by biowisdom but developed earlier by the
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and used by many bioinformatics
service providers.
SRS is a comprehensive data warehouse with very powerful querying and
linking capabilities. At the EBI, there are more than 200 databases
available, ranging from nucleotide and protein sequences databases, function
and family classifications, secondary and tertiary structure libraries,
metabolic pathways, ontologies, literature (medline), patent abstracts, etc.
BioMart is a generic data management system developed jointly by the
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(CSHL).
UniProt Search which is produced by the European Bioinformatics Institute
(EBI). The UniProt Search provides full text, advanced search, set
manipulation and search filtering on the UniProt Knowledgebase, providing
interesting and complex views of data. A browsing tool for protein sequence
database searches only.
- Entrez which is produced by the National Centre for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI). A tutorial is available here
Other search and retrieval systems include:
- ACNUC,
developed and maintained by Manolo Gouy at the PBIL
- BioRS, available from
MIPS
EB-eye, SRS or Entrez wil provide a more comprehensive set of databases to search
against and has more extensive cross linking to other databases.
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