Sequence Databases: Integrated Information Retrieval and Data Submission

Abstract

This unit provides an overview of biomedical information resources, focusing on sequence data, structure information, and the associated literature, and also discusses how nucleotide sequence data gets into the databases in the first place. Some specific databases covered here are MEDLINE, GenBank, and Entrez.

Bioinformatics for Cancer Genomics

“…Tools such as NCBI's Entrez database browser [24] and BioMart Central Portal [25] provide a single point of access to several databases; this facilitates sharing as well as integration of data in the research community. Web services have also become indispensable tools in bioinformatics.…”