List of biological databases
Biological databases are stores of biological information.[1] The journal Nucleic Acids Research regularly publishes special issues on biological databases and has a list of such databases. The 2018 issue has a list of about 180 such databases and updates to previously described databases.[2]
Meta databases
Meta databases are databases of databases that collect data about data to generate new data. They are capable of merging information from different sources and making it available in a new and more convenient form, or with an emphasis on a particular disease or organism.
- ConsensusPathDB: a molecular functional interaction database, integrating information from 12 other
- Entrez (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- Neuroscience Information Framework (University of California, San Diego): integrates hundreds of neuroscience relevant resources; many are listed below
Model organism databases
Model organism databases provide in-depth biological data for intensively studied.
- PomBase: the knowledgebase for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe[3]
Nucleic acid databases
DNA databases
Primary databases
International Nucleotide Sequence Database (INSD) consists of the following databases.
- DNA Data Bank of Japan (National Institute of Genetics)
- EMBL (European Bioinformatics Institute)
- GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
DDBJ (Japan), GenBank (USA) and European Nucleotide Archive (Europe) are repositories for nucleotide sequence data from all organisms. All three accept nucleotide sequence submissions, and then exchange new and updated data on a daily basis to achieve optimal synchronisation between them. These three databases are primary databases, as they house original sequence data. They collaborate with Sequence Read Archive (SRA), which archives raw reads from high-throughput sequencing instruments.
Secondary databases
- 23andMe's database
- HapMap
- OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man): inherited diseases
- RefSeq
- 1000 Genomes Project: launched in January 2008. The genomes of more than a thousand anonymous participants from a number of different ethnic groups were analyzed and made publicly available.
- EggNOG Database: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses. It provides multiple sequence alignments and maximum-likelihood trees, as well as broad functional annotation.[4][5]
Gene expression databases (mostly microarray data)
Genome databases
These databases collect genome sequences, annotate and analyze them, and provide public access. Some add curation of experimental literature to improve computed annotations. These databases may hold many species genomes, or a single model organism genome.
- ArrayExpress:[6] archive of functional genomics data; stores data from high-throughput functional genomics experiments from EMBL
- Bioinformatic Harvester
- Ensembl: provides automatic annotation databases for human, mouse, other vertebrate and eukaryote genomes
- Ensembl Genomes: provides genome-scale data for bacteria, protists, fungi, plants and invertebrate metazoa, through a unified set of interactive and programmatic interfaces (using the Ensembl software platform)
- FlyBase: genome of the model organism Drosophila melanogaster
- Gene Disease Database
- Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO[7]): a public functional genomics data repository from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), which supports array- and sequence-based data. Tools for querying and downloading gene expression profiles are provided.
- Human Protein Atlas (HPA[8]): a public database with expression profiles of human protein coding genes both on mRNA and protein level in tissues, cells, subcellular compartments, and cancer tumors.
- Legume Information System (LIS): genomic database for the legume family[9]
- Personal Genome Project: human genomes of 100,000 volunteers from around the world
- RGD (Rat Genome Database): genomic and phenotype data for Rattus norvegicus
- Saccharomyces Genome Database:[10] genome of the yeast model organism
- SNPedia
- SoyBase Database[11] (SoyBase): USDA soybean genetics and genomic database (Soybean)
- UCSC Malaria Genome Browser: genome of malaria causing species (Plasmodium falciparum and others)
- Wormbase: genome of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans and WormBase ParaSite for parasitic species
- Xenbase: genome of the model organism Xenopus tropicalis and Xenopus laevis
- Zebrafish Information Network: genome of this fish model organism
Phenotype databases
- PHI-base: pathogen-host interaction database. It links gene information to phenotypic information from microbial pathogens on their hosts. Information is manually curated from peer reviewed literature.
- RGD Rat Genome Database: genomic and phenotype data for Rattus norvegicus
- PomBase database: manually curated phenotypic data for the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Amino acid / protein databases
Protein sequence databases
- DisProt: database of experimental evidences of disorder in proteins (Indiana University School of Medicine, Temple University, University of Padua)
- InterPro: classifies proteins into families and predicts the presence of domains and sites
- MobiDB: database of intrinsic protein disorder annotation (University of Padua)
- neXtProt: a human protein-centric knowledge resource
- Pfam: protein families database of alignments and HMMs (Sanger Institute)
- PRINTS: a compendium of protein fingerprints from (Manchester University)
- PROSITE: database of protein families and domains
- Protein Information Resource (Georgetown University Medical Center [GUMC])
- SUPERFAMILY: library of HMMs representing superfamilies and database of (superfamily and family) annotations for all completely sequenced organisms
- Swiss-Prot: protein knowledgebase (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
- NCBI: protein sequence and knowledgebase (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Protein structure databases
- Protein Data Bank (PDB), comprising:
- Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP)
- CATH : Protein Structure Classification database
For more protein structure databases, see also Protein structure database.
Protein model databases
- ModBase: database of comparative protein structure models (Sali Lab, UCSF)
- Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP): database of protein similarities computed using FASTA
- Swiss-model: server and repository for protein structure models
- AAindex: database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials
Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
- BioGRID: general repository for interaction datasets (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute)
- RNA-binding protein database
- Database of Interacting Proteins (Univ. of California)
- IntAct:[15][16] open-source database for molecular interactions (EMBL-EBI)
Protein expression databases
- Human Protein Atlas: aims at mapping all the human proteins in cells, tissues and organs
Signal transduction pathway databases
- NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database
- Netpath: curated resource of signal transduction pathways in humans
- Reactome: navigable map of human biological pathways, ranging from metabolic processes to hormonal signalling (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, European Bioinformatics Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- WikiPathways
Metabolic pathway and protein function databases
- BioCyc Database Collection: includes EcoCyc and MetaCyc
- BRENDA: the comprehensive enzyme information system, including FRENDA, AMENDA, DRENDA, and KENDA
- HMDB: contains detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body
- KEGG PATHWAY Database (Univ. of Kyoto)
- MANET database (University of Illinois)
- Reactome: navigable map of human biological pathways, ranging from metabolic processes to hormonal signalling (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, European Bioinformatics Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- SABIO-RK: database for biochemical reactions and their kinetic properties
- WikiPathways
Additional databases
Exosomal databases
- ExoCarta
- Extracellular RNA Atlas: a repository of small RNA-seq and qPCR-derived exRNA profiles from human and mouse biofluids
Mathematical model databases
- Biomodels Database: published mathematical models describing biological processes
Taxonomic databases
Radiologic databases
Antimicrobial resistance databases
- AMRFinderPlus
- Antimicrobial Drug Database (AMDD)
- ARDB
- ARGminer
- BacMet
- Beta-Lactamase Database (BLAD)
- Beta-Lactamase Database (BLDB)
- CBMAR
- The Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database
- EARS-Net
- FARME
- INTEGRALL
- LacED
- MEGARes
- MUBII-TB-DB
- Mustard Database
- MvirDB
- PathoPhenoDB
- PATRIC database
- RAC: Repository of Antibiotic resistance Cassettes
- ResFinder
- TBDReaMDB
- u-CARE
- VFDB
Wiki-style databases
Specialized databases
- Barcode of Life Data Systems: database of DNA barcodes
- The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA): provides data from hundreds of cancer samples obtained using high-throughput techniques such as gene expression profiling, copy number variation profiling, SNP genotyping, genome-wide DNA methylation profiling, microRNA profiling, and exon sequencing of at least 1,200 genes
- Cellosaurus: a knowledge resource on cell lines
- CTD (Comparative Toxicogenomics Database): describes chemical-gene-disease interactions
- DiProDB: a database to collect and analyse thermodynamic, structural and other dinucleotide properties
- Housekeeping and Reference Transcript Atlas (HRT Atlas) [17]web-based tool for searching cell specific candidate reference genes/transcripts suitable for qPCR experiment normalization. HRT Atlas also describes a complete list of human and mouse housekeeping genes and transcripts
- Dryad: repository of data underlying scientific publications in the basic and applied biosciences
- Edinburgh Mouse Atlas
- EPD Eukaryotic Promoter Database
- FINDbase (the Frequency of INherited Disorders database)
- GigaDB: repository of large scale datasets underlying scientific publications in the biological and biomedical research
- HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee): a resource for approved human gene nomenclature
- International Human Epigenome Consortium:[18] integrates epigenomic reference data from well-known national endeavors such as the Canadian CEEHRC,[19] European Blueprint,[20] European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA[21]), US ENCODE and NIH Roadmap, German DEEP,[22] Japanese CREST,[23] Korean KNIH, Singapore's GIS and China's EpiHK[24]
- MethBase: database of DNA methylation data visualized on the UCSC Genome Browser
- Minimotif Miner: database of short contiguous functional peptide motifs
- Oncogenomic databases: a compilation of databases that serve for cancer research
- PubMed: references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics
- RIKEN integrated database of mammals
- TDR Targets: a chemogenomics database focused on drug discovery in tropical diseases
- TRANSFAC: a database about eukaryotic transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA-binding profiles
- JASPAR: a database of manually curated, non-redundant transcription factor binding profiles.
- MetOSite: a database about methionine sulfoxidation sites and its functional roles in proteins[25]
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is the largest collection of hospital care data in the United States. It includes hundreds of millions of inpatient, outpatient, and emergency records.
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- GEO
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- (IHEC) data portal
- CEEHRC
- Blueprint
- EGA
- DEEP
- CREST
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External links
- Nucleic Acid Research Molecular Biology Database Collection – over 1,600 databases