Databases in Biology

 

(in major taken from Bioinformatics Course UCL/Birkbeck College, London, June 2001)

Pages Summarising Current Databases

Literature/General

Primary Databases

Nucleic Acids

Protein

Secondary Databases

Note: Databases require different formats (raw sequence or FASTA, accession number or gi number). The first link is not always the best one.

Note: The choice of the best methods depends on the degree of sequence similarity: 100-50 % - Automatic pairwise alignment, -30 % - Consensus methods, -15 % - Profile methods, - Structure prediction

Tertiary Databases

Composite Databases

Pathway Databases

Other Programmes and Downloads

Plant Specials