BIOL/CMSI/HNRS 398
Biological Databases
Fall 2008
Kam D. Dahlquist (kdahlquist@lmu.edu) and John David N. Dionisio, Co-Instructors
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- Announcements
- 20081028: Regularly scheduled office hours will be truncated on Tuesday 1028 due to a meeting from 3-5pm. I will
still be in the vicinity of my office and can entertain quick questions at that time, but more extended discussions
will have to wait.
20081101: Due to yet another meeting, regularly scheduled office hours will not take place on Tuesday 1104. Instead, these office hours will take place on Monday 1103 from 2-5pm.
20081113: For the last time this semester (I hope), regularly scheduled office hours will not take place on Tuesday 1118 due to a meeting from 3-6pm. Instead, these office hours will take place on Monday 1117 from 3-6pm.
Related External Links
These links take you to Web sites beyond this server.
Biological Databases
- Nucleic Acids Research Annual Database Issue (January 2008)
- NCBI: National Center for Biotechnology Information
- UniProt (formerly known as SwissPort)
- Ensembl
- Gene Ontology
- PDB: Protein Data Bank
- Pfam
- KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
- BioCyc (including EcoCyc, MetaCyc, HumanCyc)
- Model Organism Databases
Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast SGD: Saccharomyces Genome Database Caenorhabditis elegans nematode/roundworm WormBase Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly FlyBase Mus musculus mouse MGI: Mouse Genome Informatics Rattus rattus rat RGD: Rat Genome Database Arabidopsis thaliana Thale cress (mustard plant) TAIR: The Arabidopsis Information Resource - UCSC Human Genome Browser
- TIGR Comprehensive Microbial Resource
Biological Dictionaries Online
- Biology-Online.org
- Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
- BioTech’s Life Science Dictionary
- Cancer Dictionary
- Biomedical Abbreviation Server
- Wikipedia is a good starting point for virtually any
lookup, biology or otherwise
- Wikipedia search for bioinformatics
Journals in Bioinformatics and Related Areas
- High-impact, general journals that publish the occasional paper
- Specialty journals
- Industry news: Genome Technology
Software and Programming Resources
- BLAST: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
- The GenMAPP home page
- Open Bioinformatics Foundation
- Pick a language or technology: BioPerl, BioJava, BioPython, BioRuby, BioPipe, BioSQL/OBDA, BioMOBY, BioDAS, BioLisp
- The SourceForge home page
- The PostgreSQL home page: an industrial-strength, open
source database management system
- Go to http://jdbc.postgresql.org to access PostgreSQL’s JDBC Driver
- Hibernate home page
- Xdoclet home page
- XML resources:
- Tutorial and reference on XML Schema (xsd)
- JAXB home page
- HyperJAXB home page
- The LaTeX home page
- The MikTeX home page: a highly popular LaTeX implementation
- The Perl Documentation Web site
- Perl Monks: Ask for Perl advice here, and ye shall receive