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] Omics Discovery Index can be used to browse and search several biological databases. Furthermore, the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) enables searching across databases.

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.[metadatabase is a database model for metadata management, global query of independent database, and distributed data processing. The word metadatabase is an addition to the dictionary]. originally, metadata was only common term referring simply to data about data such a tags, keywords, and markup headers.

Model organism databases

Model organism databases provide in-depth biological data for intensively studied organisms.

  • PomBase: the knowledgebase for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe[3]
  • SubtiWiki: integrated database for the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis[4]
  • TAIR: the knowledgebase for the plant Arabidopsis thaliana[5]

Nucleic acid databases

DNA databases

The primary databases make up the International Nucleotide Sequence Database (INSD). The include:

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 are:[clarification needed]

  • 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.[6][7]

Other databases

Gene expression databases

Generic gene expression databases

Microarray gene expression databases

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.

Phenotype databases

RNA databases

Amino acid / protein databases

(See also: List of proteins in the human body)

Several publicly available data repositories and resources have been developed to support and manage protein related information, biological knowledge discovery and data-driven hypothesis generation.[15] The databases in the table below are selected from the databases listed in the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) databases issues and database collection and the databases cross-referenced in the UniProtKB. Most of these databases are cross-referenced with UniProt / UniProtKB so that identifiers can be mapped to each other.[15]

Proteins in human:

There are about ~20,000 protein coding genes in the standard human genome. (Roughly ~1200 already have Wikipedia articles - the Gene Wiki - about them) if we are Including splice variants, there could be as many as 500,000 unique human proteins[16]

Different types of Protein databases

DB name DB website Provider Data sources Revenue/Sponsors sources Integrates Wiki article Desc. Size DB type Actively maintained
InterPro http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/ ELIXIR infrastructure European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL, The Welcome trust, BBSRC CATH-Gene3D, CDD, HAMAP, MobiDB, PANTHER, Pfam, SMART, SUPERFAMILY, SFLD, TIGRFAMs, InterPro classifies proteins into families and predicts the presence of domains and sites Protein sequence databases Yes
NextProt https://www.nextprot.org/ CALIPHO (is a group at the SIB) Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics https://www.sib.swiss/about/funding-sources UniProt, Cellosaurus, Gnomad, IntAct, SRAA Atlas, Uniprot - GOA, BGEE, COSMIC, MassIVE, Peptide atlas neXtProt a human protein-centric knowledge resource Protein sequence databases Yes
Wiki-pi http://severus.dbmi.pitt.edu/wiki-pi/ Madhavi K. Ganapathiraju At present Wiki-Pi contains 48,419 unique interactions among 10,492 proteins. However it is not clear if this is unique proteins[13] Protein interactoin Database ??
Human Protein Reference Database Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore, India Human Protein Reference Database One source claims 15000 [17] proteins. But it is unclear how many of these are unique
Sanger Institute Pfam protein families database of alignments and HMMs Protein sequence databases
Human Proteinpedia Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University, Human Proteinpedia The human Proteinpedia is based on HPRD (Human protein reference database)which is a repository hosting over 30,000 human proteins. However it is unclear how many of these are unique proteins
Human Protein Atlas The Swedish Government Human Protein Atlas It contains roughly 10 million IHC images of a bit less than 25,000 antibodies. But once again it is unclear how many of these are unique
Manchester University PRINTS a compendium of protein fingerprints Protein sequence databases
PROSITE database of protein families and domains Protein sequence databases
Georgetown University Medical Center [GUMC] Protein Information Resource Protein sequence databases
SUPERFAMILY library of HMMs representing superfamilies and database of (superfamily and family) annotations for all completely sequenced organisms Protein sequence databases
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Swiss-Prot protein knowledgebase Protein sequence databases
NCBI protein sequence and knowledgebase (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Protein sequence databases
Protein DataBank in Europe (PDBe),[18] ProteinDatabank in Japan (PDBj),[19] Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)[20] Protein Data Bank (PDB) Protein structure databases
Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) Protein structure databases
Protein Structure Classification database CATH : Protein structure databases
Sali Lab, UCSF ModBase database of comparative protein structure models Protein model databases
Similarity Matrix of Proteins SIMAP database of protein similarities computed using FASTA Protein model databases
Swiss-model server and repository for protein structure models Protein model databases
AAindex database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials Protein model databases
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute BioGRID general repository for interaction datasets Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
RNA-binding protein databas Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
Univ. of California Database of Interacting Proteins Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
(EMBL-EBI) IntAct:[21] open-source database for molecular interactions Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
String an open source molecular interaction database to study interactions between proteins Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
Human Protein Atlas aims at mapping all the human proteins in cells, tissues and organs Protein expression databases
ProteinModelPortal Protein Model Portal of the PSI-Nature Structural Biology Knowledgebase ?? ?? 3D structure protein databases
SMR Database of annotated 3D protein structure models University of Basel The Swiss government 3D structure protein databases
DisProt Database of Protein Disorder ELIXIR infrastructure Indiana University School of Medicine, Temple University, University of Padua funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Swiss Prot/Uni Prot, CATH, Pfam, Europe PMC, BITEM, ECO, Geneontology DisProt database of experimental evidences of disorder in proteins 3D structure protein databases, Protein sequence databases
MobiDB Database of intrinsically disordered and mobile proteins John Moult, Christine Orengo, Predrag Radivojac University of Padua Italian Government MobiDB database of intrinsic protein disorder annotation 3D structure protein databases, Protein sequence databases
ModBase Database of Comparative Protein Structure Models Ursula Pieper, Ben Webb, Narayanan Eswar, Andrej Sali Roberto Sanchez UCSF, Sali Lab 3D structure protein databases
PDBsum Pictorial database of 3D structures in the Protein Data Bank European Bioinformatics Institute 2013 Wellcome Trust 3D structure protein databases
CCDS The Consensus CDS protein set database NCBI ?? Sequence databases
DDBJ DNA Data Bank of Japan ?? ?? Sequence databases
ENA European Nucleotide Archive ?? ?? Sequence databases
GenBank GenBank nucleotide sequence database ?? ?? Sequence databases
Refseq NCBI Reference Sequence Database ?? ?? Sequence databases
UniGene Database of computationally identifies transcripts from the same locus ?? ?? Sequence databases
UniProtKB Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) ?? ?? Sequence databases
Swiss Prot/Uni Prot https://www.sib.swiss/swiss-prot and https://www.uniprot.org/ SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) Swiss-Prot has collected over 81 000 variants in roughly 13,000 human protein sequence records from peer-reviewed literature. It is unclear how many unique proteins types are present in the database.

Signal transduction pathway databases

Metabolic pathway and protein function databases

Taxonomic databases

Numerous databases collect information about species and other taxonomic categories. The Catalogue of Life is a special case as it is a meta-database of about 150 specialized "global species databases" (GSDs) that have collected the names and other information on (almost) all described and thus "known" species.

  • BacDive: bacterial metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity, including taxonomy information
  • Catalogue of Life: a meta-database of all species on earth
  • EzTaxon-e: database for the identification of prokaryotes based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences
  • NCBI Taxonomy: a taxonomic database operated by NCBI and concentrating on all taxa for which DNA sequences are available (those sequences are stored by GenBank, another database operated by NCBI).

Image databases

Images play a critical role in biomedicine, ranging from images of anthropological specimens to zoology. However, there are relatively few databases dedicated to image collection, although some projects such as iNaturalist collect photos as a main part of their data. A special case of "images" are 3-dimensional images such as protein structures or 3D-reconstructions of anatomical structures. Image databases include, among others:[22]

Radiologic databases

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

Radiologic databases

Databases on antimicrobial resistance rates and antibiotic consumption

Databases on antimicrobial resistance mechanisms

Wiki-style databases

Specialized databases

  • Barcode of Life Data Systems: database of DNA barcodes
  • Bacterial Pesticidal Protein Database[25][26]
  • 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)[27] 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:[28] integrates epigenomic reference data from well-known national endeavors such as the Canadian CEEHRC,[29] European Blueprint,[30] European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA[31]), US ENCODE and NIH Roadmap, German DEEP,[32] Japanese CREST,[33] Korean KNIH, Singapore's GIS and China's EpiHK[34]
  • 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[35]
  • 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.
  • LEXAS curates descriptions of biological experiments from PMC articles.
  • Bovine Metabolome Database is a free web database that lists known bovine metabolites

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