Genome Databases

Marion L Carroll, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Son V Nguyen, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Mark A Batzer, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Published online: May 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003027

Genome databases are repositories of DNA sequences from many different species of plants and animals. They are linked electronically to supportive databases to aid in interpretation of the sequence data.

Keywords: informatics; bioinformatics; DNA sequencing; genomics; computational biology

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    ePath C. elegans Database, [http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Acedb/]
    ePath Celera, [http://www.celera.com/]
    ePath dbSNP, [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/SNP/]
    ePath DDBJ, [http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/]
    ePath ELSI, [http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/ELSI/]
    ePath Fly Database (FlyBase), [http://fly.ebi.ac.uk:7081/]
    ePath GenBank, [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html]
    ePath GenomeWeb, [http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/GenomeWeb/human-gen-db-genome.html]
    ePath Human Database, [http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/GenomeWeb/human-gen-db-genome.html]
    ePath Incyte, [http://www.incyte.com]
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    ePath Maize Database, [http://www.agron.missouri.edu/]
    ePath Mosquito Database, [http://klab.agsci.colostate.edu/index.html]
    ePath Myriad Genetics, [http://www.myriad.com/]
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    ePath NCBI, [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/]
    ePath OMIM, [http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/]
    ePath Other animal genome databases (ArkDB), [http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/arkdb/sites.html]
    ePath Puffer Fish Database, [http://fugu.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/]
    ePath The Institute of Genome Research (TIGR), [http://www.tigr.org/]
    ePath Tilapia Database, [http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/arkdb/browsers/browser.sh?species=tilapia]
    ePath Yeast Database, [http://genome-www.stanford.edu/] and [http://www.bio.uva.nl/pombe/]
    ePath Zebrafish Database, [http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/zfish/pub/]

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Bioinformatics | Gene and Genome Structure and Organisation | Bioinformatics and Genetic Disease | Techniques and Tools in Molecular Biology | Computational Molecular Biology
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Carroll, Marion L, Nguyen, Son V, and Batzer, Mark A(May 2001) Genome Databases. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0003027]