It has been estimated that the amount of information in the world doubles every 20 months and the size and number of databases are increasing even faster. [1]
The growth statistics of the largest public databases:
Source: GenomeNet, Kyoto University
[2] George Mason university: Links and introduction
Most important public databases for molecular biology
Primary Sequence DBs
(collaborative project with data exchange)
- DDBJ (DNA DataBase of Japan)
- EMBL Nucleotide DB (European Molecular Biology Laboratory )
- GenBank (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Meta-DBs
- Entrez Gene Unified retrival of gene-centred information (NCBI)
- euGenes Assembled information on eukaryotic genomes (Univ. of Indiana)
- GeneCards (Weizmann Inst.)
- GenLoc / UDB (Weizmann Inst.)
- SOURCE (Univ. of Stanford)
- LocusLink (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Genome Annotation Systems
- Ensembl Genome BrowserAutomatically Annotated Genomes (EMBL-EBI and Wellcome Trust Sanger Inst.)
- UniGene Automatic partitioning of GenBank sequences (NCBI)
- Golden Path / UCSC (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)
Specialized DBs
- CGAP Cancer Genes (National Cancer Institute)
- Clone Registry Clone Collections (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- I.M.A.G.E Clone Collections (Image Consortium)
- DBGET H.sapiens, retrieval system (Univ. of Kyoto)
- DIP Interacting Proteins (Univ. of California)
- GDB (Human Genome Organization)
- KEGG Functional Db (Univ. of Kyoto)
- MGI Mouse Genome (Jackson Lab.)
- OMIM Inherited Diseases (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- SWISS-PROT Protein Db (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
- PEDANT Protein Db (Forschungszentrum f. Umwelt & Gesundheit)
- List with SNP-Databases
- Reactome, The Genome Knowledgebase (EBI)
Microarray-DBs
- ArrayExpress (European Bioinformatic Institute)
- Gene Expression Omnibus (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
- maxd (Univ. of Manchester)
- SMD (Univ. of Stanford)
Sources and more links
[1] Weizmann institute of Science[2] George Mason university: Links and introduction