There are internationally available databases containing nucleotide data. These resources are useful for investigating basic and advanced research problems.
Keywords: GenBank; EMBL; DDBJ; sequence data; nucleotides
Nucleotide Sequence Databases
Fran Lewitter, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Published online: September 2005
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005250
| References | |
| Altschul SF, Madden TL, Schäffer AA, et al. (1997) Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Research 25: 3389–3402. | |
| Baker W, van den Broek A, Camon E, et al. (2000) The EMBL nucleotide sequence database. Nucleic Acids Research 28: 19–23. | |
| Benson DA, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, et al. (2002) GenBank. Nucleic Acids Research 30(1): 17–20. | |
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| Further Reading | |
| book Baxevanis AD and Ouellette BFF (eds.) (2001) Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, 2nd edn. New York, NY: Wiley Interscience. | |
| Nucleic Acids Research 2001 database issue (2001) Nucleic Acids Research 29: 1–349. | |
| Pandey A and Lewitter F (1999) Nucleotide sequence databases: a gold mine for biologists. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 24(7): 276–280. | |
| Web Links | |
| ePath GenBank. This link leads to information about the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration of GenBank, EMBL and DDBJ. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/collab/ | |
| ePath Nucleic Acids Research. NAR has an annual database issue that is linked on this page. http://www.nar.oupjournals.org | |
| ePath CMS Molecular Biology Resource. A site managed by Chris Smith at the San Diego Supercomputer Center that lists links to many nucleotide sequence databases. http://restools.sdsc.edu | |
