Bioinformatics
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key Databases:
Provides access to ISI citation databases including Science citation index
Similar coverage to Web of Science.
Covers journal literature and chemical name registry. Biochemistry, physical, inorganic, organic, analytical, macromolecular and applied chemistry, as well as chemical engineering. The CAS Registry file provides access to specific chemical substances, including diagrams, names, molecular formulae
Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences
Covers research and clinical literature in human and veterinary medicine
Merges patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with patent citation information from the Derwent Patents Citation Index
ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts
Marine biotechnology, molecular biology and molecular genetics as applied to marine and aquatic organisms
Other Databases:
Specialised Resources
For some topics you will need to consult specialist information sources.
Bioplatforms Australia provides services and scientific infrastructure in the specialist fields of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics. It supports Australian life science research with crucial investments in state-of-the-art technologies and cutting edge expertise.
GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database, has an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
Constitutes Europe's primary nucleotide sequence resource.
Discover motifs using MEME, DREME (DNA only) or GLAM2 on groups of related DNA or protein sequences, search sequence databases with motifs using MAST, FIMO, MCAST or GLAM2SCAN, compare a motif to all motifs in a database of motifs, associate motifs with Gene Ontology terms via their putative target genes, and analyse motif enrichment using SpaMo or CentriMo.
DDBJ is the sole DNA data bank in Japan, which is officially certified to collect DNA sequences from researchers and to issue the internationally recognized accession number to data submitters.
Ensembl is a joint project between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to develop a software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on selected eukaryotic genomes. Ensembl presents up-to-date sequence data and the best possible automatic annotation for metazoan genomes. Available now are human, mouse, rat, fugu, zebrafish, mosquito, Drosophila, C. elegans, and C. briggsae.
EMBL - EBI - Genomic Databases
The PDB archive contains information about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies.
The mission of UniProt is to provide the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.
The ArrayExpress Archive is a database of functional genomics experiments including gene expression where you can query and download data collected to MIAME and MINSEQE standards. Gene Expression Atlas contains a subset of curated and re-annotated Archive data which can be queried for individual gene expression under different biological conditions across experiments.
MorphoBank displays dynamic phylogenetic matrices of morphological characters with labeled images demonstrating homology statements, and implements the data editing functions of widely used desktop programs (e.g., Mesquite, Nexus Data Editor) in a password protected environment.
TreeBASE is a repository of phylogenetic information, specifically user-submitted phylogenetic trees and the data used to generate them.
NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre
The NEBC was established in 2002 to provide bioinformatics, data management and computing supporting to the NERC research community using 'omics technologies. NEBC now collaborates with and supports environmental scientists generating and using a range of molecular data types in their environmental research. Our collaborators are based both in the UK and internationally.
A BioMed Central open access journal
An BioMed Central open access journal
A Public Library of Science open access journal
Web Sites
Cornell University Library Open Access Archive - Quantitative Biology
Neuroscience Gateway including Mouse Brain Atlas
University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System Bioinformatics Tools
Open Bioinformatics Foundation
Bioinformatics Links Directory
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN)
The Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) is a global network of well-managed collections of genomic tissue samples from across the Tree of Life, benefiting society through biodiversity research, development and conservation. This network will foster collaborations among repositories of molecular biodiversity in order to ensure quality standards, improve best practices, secure interoperability, and harmonize exchange of material in accordance with national and international legislation and conventions.
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