There are so many different bioinformatics tools available that it is impossible to list them all. Here you find a small collection of interesting platforms in the life science area.
| NCBI - National Center for Biotechnology Information (USA) |
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Entrez |
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- life sciences search engine (literature + biological data)
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PubMed |
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- search service of the National Library of Medicine
- over 9 million entries in MEDLINE + online journals and data bases
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PubMed Central |
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- archive of life sciences journals
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BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) |
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- programs for classification and finding of potential homologous ones for a given sequence
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OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) |
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- data base of human genes + genetically caused diseases
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Taxonomy |
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- data bases with common and scientific names of organisms with sequence information
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| EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) |
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EMBL (nucleotide sequence database) |
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- nucleotide sequences of different species
- daily data exchange with the GenBank (USA) and the DNA database DDBJ (Japan)
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TrEMBL |
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- translated nucleotide sequences, annotation "per computer"
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SWISS-PROT (protein sequence database) |
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- non-redundant, annotations "per hand", cross references to other data bases
- includes also protein sequences from translated DNA or RNA sequences
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| PDB (Protein Data Bank) |
- collection of all known, publicly accessible 3D-structures (proteins, protein and nucleotide sequences, + complexes)
- structures from NMR- and x-ray structure analysis
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| KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (Japan) |
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LIGAND |
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- chemical database 'universe of chemical reactions'
- combined search for enzymes and metabolic substances
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BRITE (Biomolecular Relations in Information Transmission and Expression) |
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- database of binary relations for network computation and logical reasoning involving genes, proteins, and other biological molecules
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