User:Jarle Pahr/Databases

A list of databases in the life sciences, especially bioinformatics, molecular biology and systems biology:

Genetics and Genomics

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biological_databases

GenBank: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/

SNPedia: http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia

dbSNP:

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbSNP

• Every submitted variation receives a submitted SNP ID number (“ss#”)
• Identical SNPs are merged and given a reference SNP ID number (“rs#”; "refSNP cluster")

See also: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21088/

GOLD - Genomes Online Database: http://www.genomesonline.org/cgi-bin/GOLD/index.cgi

Microbiology and Taxonomy

BioCyc

EcoCyc: http://www.ecocyc.org/

EcoliWiki: http://www.ecoliwiki.net/

Encyclopedia of life: http://eol.org/

WikiSpecies: http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Misc

BioNumbers: http://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: http://www.els.net