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Protein related databases
UniProt - the universal protein resource
UniProt Knowledgebase - consists of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot (high-level annotation) and UniProtKB/TrEMBL (computer-annotated)
PMD - Protein Mutant db
InterPro - Integrated Resources of Proteins Domains and Functional Sites
PROSITE - Database of protein families and domains
BLOCKS - BLOCKS db
Gene3D - Structural and Functional Annotation of Protein Families
Panther - Functional classification system
Pfam - Protein families db (HMM derived) [Mirrors at St. Louis (USA) , Sanger Institute, UK , Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) ]
PIRSF - Protein classification system
PRINTS - Protein Motif fingerprint db
ProDom - Protein domain db (Automatically generated)
PROTOMAP - An automatic hierarchical classification of UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot proteins
SBASE - SBASE domain db
SMART - Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool
Superfamily - Library of profile HMMs representing all proteins of known structure
STRING - Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes/Proteins
TIGRFAMs - TIGR protein families db
BIND - Biomolecular Interaction Network Database
DIP - Database of Interacting Proteins
MINT - Molecular INTeraction database
HPRD - Human Protein Reference Database
IntAct
BioGRID - General Repository for Interaction Dataset
PPI - JCB Protein-Protein Interaction Website
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Protein 3D structure related databases
PDB - Protein Data Bank
BioMagResBank - Repository for data on proteins, peptides, and nucleic acids from NMR spectroscopy
SWISS-MODEL Repository - Automatically generated protein models db
ModBase - Db of comparative protein structure models
CATH - UCL BSM structural classification of proteins
SCOP - Structural classification of proteins [Mirror at USA | Israel | Singapore | Australia ]
Molecules To Go - Molecules To Go (formerly known as Molecules R Us), browser for PDB
BMM Domain Server - Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory (ICRF) protein domain server
ReLiBase - Receptor/ligand complexes db [Mirror in USA ]
TOPS - Protein topology atlas
CCDC - Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (Cambridge Stuctural Db (CSD))
HSSP - Homology-derived secondary structure of proteins db
MutaProt - Comparison of PDB files which differ by point mutations
SWISS-3DIMAGE - 3D images of proteins and other biological macromolecules
BioImage - Biological image db (contains imaging data on macromolecules)
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Proteomics databases and links
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Nucleotide and related databases
EMBL - EMBL Nucleotide sequence db (EBI)
Genbank - GenBank Nucleotide Sequence db (NCBI)
DDBJ - DNA Data Bank of Japan
dbEST - dbEST (Expressed Sequence Tags) db (NCBI)
dbSTS - dbSTS (Sequence Tagged Sites) db (NCBI)
AsDb - Aberrant Splicing db
ACUTS - Ancient conserved untranslated DNA sequences db
Codon Usage Db
EPD - Eukaryotic Promoter db
HOVERGEN - Homologous Vertebrate Genes db
IMGT - ImMunoGeneTics db [Mirror at EBI ]
ISIS - Intron Sequence and Information System
RDP - Ribosomal db Project
gRNAs db - Guide RNA db
PLACE - Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements db
PlantCARE - Plant cis-acting regulatory DNA elements db
ssu rRNA - Small ribosomal subunit at the European ribosomal RNA database
lsu rRNA - Large ribosomal subunit at the European ribosomal RNA database
5S rRNA - 5S ribosomal RNA db
tmRNA Website
tmRDB - tmRNA dB
tRNA - tRNA compilation from the University of Bayreuth
uRNA db
RNA editing - RNA editing site
RNAmod db - RNA modification db
TelDB - Multimedia Telomere Resource
MPDB - Molecular probe db
VectorDB - Vector sequence db
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Carbohydrates resources
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Species specific databases:
Human
Vertebrates
Mitochondrion and chloroplast
GOBASE - Organelle Genome Database
MitoDat - Mendelian Inheritance and the Mitochondrion db (mitochondrial nuclear gen
C.caldarium - Cyanidium caldarium strain RK1 chloroplast genome
Insects
Invertebrates
Plants
Fungi
Bacteria
Archaea
Viruses and phages
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Human mutation databases/resources
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Gene(s)/protein(s) specific databases/resources
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Post-translational modifications databases and resources
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Phylogenetics and taxonomy databases & resources
COG - Phylogenetic classification of proteins encoded in complete genomes
EGO - Eukaryotic Gene Orthologs
InParanoid - Eukaryotic ortholog groups
Metazome - Phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene families
OMA - Orthologs Matrix Project (OMA)
TreeBASE - Relational db of phylogenetic information
TreeFam - Tree families database of phylogenetic trees of animal genes
The Tree of life - Collection of WWW pages on phylogeny and biodiversity of organisms
The PhylOgenetic Web Repeater (POWER) - perform phylogenetic analysis
NCBI Taxonomy Browser
NEWT - UniProt Taxonomy Browser
CluSTr - Automatic classification of UniProtKB proteins into groups of related proteins
ProtoNet - Classification of the proteins into hierarchical clusters
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Microarray databases and resources
ArrayExpress - MicroArray informatics at the EBI
CleanEx - database of gene expression profiles
ExpressDB - Yeast and E.coli RNA expression db
GeneX - Gene Expression project
GEO - Gene Expression Omnibus
RAD - RNA abundance db
SMD - Stanford microarray db
MILANO - Microarray Literature-based Annotation
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Patents databases
DPD - DNA Patent db
Ag Patents - Agricultural Biotechnology patents from the USDA
USPTO patent db - USA Patent and Trademark Office patent db
Esp@cenet - Patent information database from the European Patent Office (worldwide coverage)
Freepatentsonline - access to millions of patents
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References (bibliographic databases)
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Dictionaries, protocols, courses, nomenclature, etc.
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Biological software and databases catalog servers
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Gateways (portals) to Life Science resources
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Biological journals and publishers
Resources linking to journals home pages
Publishers
Bioinformatics journals and newsletters
Genomic newsletters
Miscellaneous
Biotechnology trade journals
General science journals
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Some biological societies and organizations
APS - American Peptide Society
ASCB - The American Society for Cell Biology
ASHG - American Society of Human Genetics
ATCC - American Type Culture Collection
Biochemical Society
BSA - Botanical Society of America
CSBMCB - Canadian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology
EFBF - European Federation of Biophysics
EGF - European Genetics Foundation
EMBO - European Molecular Biology Organization
ESEB - European Society for Evolutionary Biology
ESHG - European Society of Human Genetics
FAOBMB - Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
FASEB - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
FEBS - Federation of European Biochemistry Societies
HUGO - HUman Genome Organization
HUPO - HUman Proteome Organization
IUBMB - International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
IUPAC - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
MSA - Mycological Society of America
PPI - Plasma Proteome Institute
PRF - Protein Research Foundation
SDB - Society for Developmental Biology
SGM - Society for General Microbiology
SICB - Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
DOI - Digital Object Identifier foundation
BioJava Project - International association of developers of Java tools for bioinformatics
Bioperl Project - International association of developers of Perl tools for bioinformatics
Biopython Project - International association of developers of Python tools for bioinformatics
ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology
OMG LSR - Object Management Group Life Science Research task force
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