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
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.
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 presents up-to-date sequence data and the best possible automatic annotation for eukaryotic genomes. It is a joint project between EBI and the Sanger Institute.
The PDB archive contains information about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies.
A BioMed Central open access journal
An BioMed Central open access journal
A Public Library of Science open access journal
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