Entrez Bioinformatics Databases and Tools : Molecular Databases
This library guide is designed by Lyra Eugenio-Thomson to assist in the use of bioinformatics databases and tools from Entrez, a retrieval system of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
Nucleotide Sequences
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dbSNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism)Serves as a central repository for both single base nucleotide substitutions and short deletion and insertion polymorphisms.
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ProbePublic registry of nucleic acid reagents designed for use in a wide variety of biomedical research applications.
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PopSet (Evolutionary Relatedness)Collection of DNA sequences used to analyze evolutionary relatedness within a population.
Structures
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Conserved DomainsContains protein domains from the Entrez Structure Database.
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PubChem BioAssayContains bioactivity screens of chemical substances described in PubChem Substance.
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PubChem CompoundContains validated chemical depiction information provided to describe substances in PubChem Substance.
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PubChem SubstanceContains descriptions of chemical samples, from a variety of sources, and links to PubMed citations, protein 3D structures, and biological screening results that are available in PubChem BioAssay.
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Protein Sequences
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ProteinsContains sequence data from the translated coding regions from DNA sequences (GenBank, EMBL, and DDBJ) and protein sequences submitted to Protein Information Resource (PIR), SWISS-PROT, Protein Research Foundation (PRF), and Protein Data Bank (PDB).
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CDD (Conserved Domain Database)Database of protein domains.
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Protein ClustersCollection of related protein sequences.
Genes
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GeneSearchable database of genes, from RefSeq genomes, and defined by sequence and/or located in the NCBI Map Viewer.
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UniGeneExperimental system for automatically partitioning GenBank sequences into a non-redundant set of gene-oriented clusters.
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HomoloGeneAutomated system for detecting homologs among annotated genes of several completely sequenced eukaryotic genomes.
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Gene Expression
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Entrez GEO ProfilesQueries annotation & pre-computed profile characteristics, identification of specific genes, & molecular abundance profiles of interest.
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Entrez GEO DataSetsQueries all GEO DataSet annotation, allowing identification of experiments of interest.
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GENSATGene expression atlas of mouse central nervous system.