Links to Bioinformatics

• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
  • Site Maps
    • NCBI Site Map
      View NCBI resources by categories using this graphical site map.
    • Alphabetical Quicklinks Table
    • NCBI Resource Guide
      Provides resource descriptions and a complete list of NCBI services.
    • Model of Entrez Databases
      Diagram shows the Entrez databases and the connections between them.
  • Educational Guides
    • Databases and Tools
      Education guide to NCBI databases and tools
    • Science Primer
      A basic introduction to the science underlying NCBI Resources.
  • NCBI Handbook
    Focused on the relatively stable information about each NCBI resource; each chapter in the handbook provides a brief overview on using a specific resource, how the resource works, including topics such as how data is included in a database, database design, query processing, and how the different resources relate to each other.
• Coffee Break
  Short interactive, hybrid brief reports / tutorials on breaking news (NCBI tools).
• News at NCBI
• NCBI Entrez: The Life Sciences Search Engine
  NCBI's growing number of Entrez databases can now be searched at once through this new global search engine.

   

• European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
  European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organization which manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures. The mission of the EBI is to ensure that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is accessible freely to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress.
  • Site Maps
    • EBI Services Overview
    • Toolbox at the EBI
      The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox area provides a comprehensive range of tools for the field of bioinformatics.
    • EMBL-EBI in Germany
      Site map to the computational services [tools] provided and maintained by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
• Educational Guides
  • EMBL-EBI Short Courses
  • Macromolecular Structural Database (MSD) Tutorials
  • 2can Bioinformatics
    This EBI educational resource provides short and concise introductions to basic concepts in molecular and cell biology and bioinformatics.
• Research Groups at the EBI
  Specialist research groups provide an invaluable resource of biological data and utilities in the understanding of genomic and proteomic data.
• Genomes at EBI
• EBI Database Query
  EBI equivalent to NCBI Entrez
• News at EBI

Stanford Links

• Stanford Microarray Database
• Stanford Functional Genomics Facility
• Lane Medical Library

UCSC Genome Links

• UCSC Genome Center