The EBI has a range of search engines available to query many types of molecular biology databases including biological ontologies, nucleotide sequence, protein sequence, proteomic, protein function/interactions, gene expression & microarray, gene ontologies, biological structure, scientific literature & text mining and metabolic pathway databases. Please see the 'EBI Database Queries' page, or you can also go to the databases page and browse to your chosen database and see what options you have from there. The purpose of this page is related to sequence comparisons and which programs are available for a particular database.
The Databases are accessible by a variety of tools. When a suitable program option is chosen from the tool pages program option (if there is one) it will then be possible to choose from a variety of databases to query against. The databases consist of the following types:
- Biological Ontology Databases - includes, GO, GOA, Ontology Lookup, QuickGO, ChEBI, NEWT, SBO, Taxonomy etc.
- Literature Databases - Various bioinformatics associated databases, including MEDLINE a database of biological journal abstracts.
- Microarray Databases - The current hot-topic in the field is that of microarrays where ArrayExpress is accessible and which plays a central role in the archiving, analysis and distribution of array expression data and it's distribution into the public domain.
- Nucleotide Databases - includes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database and activities that build around it such as our completed genomes. Other databases include Ensembl, Parasites and IMGT, and Karyn's Genomes.
- Pathways & Networks - includes Reactome and BioModels.
- Protein Sequence Databases - such as UniProt, UniRef, UniParc, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, UniProtKB/TrEMBL, InterPro, IPI, IntenZ, CSA and many more.
- Proteomic - includes PRIDE.
- Structure Databases - and secondary structure classification libraries such as DALI, PDB, FSSP, DSSP, MSD, RESID etc.
