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Examples of publicly available databases
There are many publicly available databases for life sciences data covering a variety of types of data, such as:
- Entrez – an NCBI database that provides nucleotide and protein sequence data, gene-centered and genomic mapping information and 3D structure data.1
- UniProt – a resource for protein sequence and annotation data, from EMBL-EBI, SIB and PIR.2
- Expression Atlas – a resource to find information on gene and protein expression from.3
- OMIM – a compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes.4
- Ensembl – a single point of access to annotated genomes.5
- ChEMBL – a database of bioactive drug-like small molecules.6
Some of those listed above are EMBL-EBI resources. In the image below all the data resources available from EMBL-EBI are listed.
Explore the full list and details of each EMBL-EBI data resource then complete the drag-and-drop element below to match up some EMBL-EBI data resources with their descriptions.
The data from these resources comes from researchers around the world, either by direct submission or through curation of publications. Therefore data sharing is pivotal to the existence of publicly available data resources.
All the resources listed in figure 2 are openly accessible, with the exception of the European Genome-Phenome Archive which requires users to request access to data because it contains patient data. On the next page we will discuss restricted access resources further.