The Systems of Bioinformatics
Open To the Public
Bioinformatics is the definition of Public Genomic Research
Fig 1.
Shown to the left is a screenshot of the main NCBI database page.
As seen in the screenshot above, the U.S government offers a huge list of resources that are available to you in any situation.
Fig 2.
The European Union also provides a wide variety of services
Just like the North American Bioinformatical Database, the European counter part runs on govnment funding and the hard work of top scientists.
Examples of Databases in North America
PubMed
"A searchable database of genes, focusing on genomes that have been completely sequenced and that have an active research community to contribute gene-specific data. Information includes nomenclature, chromosomal localization, gene products and their attributes (e.g., protein interactions), associated markers, phenotypes, interactions, and links to citations, sequences, variation details, maps, expression reports, homologs, protein domain content, and external databases." (1)
"A collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly or from linked data in other NCBI databases. The collection includes biomedical textbooks, other scientific titles, genetic resources such as GeneReviews, and NCBI help manuals." (1)
"A database of citations and abstracts for biomedical literature from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Links are provided when full text versions of the articles are available via PubMed Central (described below) or other websites." (1)
Examples of Services in Europe
"Selected EMBOSS tools for sequence analysis, providing: pairwise sequence alignment, sequence format conversion, sequence translation and back-translation, and sequence statistics." (1)
-Similarity search tool for nucleotide sequence databases.
-Similarity search tool for protein sequence databases.
-Nucleotide fragment similarity search tool
-Peptide fragment similarity search tool
"A centralised data centre and portal for gene-phenotype associations generated in an international effort to characterize a knockout mouse strain for over 20,000 mouse genes." (1)
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