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Biological database, the Glossary

Biological databases are libraries of biological sciences, collected from scientific experiments, published literature, high-throughput experiment technology, and computational analysis.^[1]

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Accession number (bioinformatics)

An accession number, in bioinformatics, is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository.

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African clawed frog

The African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), also known as simply Xenopus, African clawed toad, African claw-toed frog or the Platanna) is a species of African aquatic frog of the family Pipidae. Its name is derived from the short black claws on its feet. The word Xenopus means 'strange foot' and laevis means 'smooth'.

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Biobank

A biobank is a type of biorepository that stores biological samples (usually human) for use in research. Biological database and biobank are biological databases.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.

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Biological data

Biological data refers to a compound or information derived from living organisms and their products. Biological database and Biological data are biological databases.

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Biomolecule

A biomolecule or biological molecule is loosely defined as a molecule produced by a living organism and essential to one or more typically biological processes.

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Caenorhabditis briggsae

Caenorhabditis briggsae is a small nematode, closely related to Caenorhabditis elegans.

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Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments.

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Catalogue of Life

The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms.

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CATH database

The CATH Protein Structure Classification database is a free, publicly available online resource that provides information on the evolutionary relationships of protein domains. Biological database and CATH database are biological databases.

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Chemical database

A chemical database is a database specifically designed to store chemical information.

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Computer science

Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation.

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Cross-reference

The term cross-reference (abbreviation: xref) can refer to either.

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Data model

A data model is an abstract model that organizes elements of data and standardizes how they relate to one another and to the properties of real-world entities.

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Death Domain database

The Death Domain database is a secondary database of protein-protein interactions (PPI) of the death domain superfamily. Biological database and death Domain database are biological databases.

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Digital library

A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet.

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European Bioinformatics Institute

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is an intergovernmental organization (IGO) which, as part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) family, focuses on research and services in bioinformatics.

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Evolution

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.

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FlyBase

FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database and the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae.

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GenBank

The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations. Biological database and GenBank are biological databases.

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Gene Disease Database

In bioinformatics, a Gene Disease Database is a systematized collection of data, typically structured to model aspects of reality, in a way to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of complex diseases, by understanding multiple composite interactions between phenotype-genotype relationships and gene-disease mechanisms.

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Genomics

Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of molecular biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes.

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services.

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Illinois Natural History Survey

The Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), located on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, Illinois, is an active research institution with over 200 staff members, and it maintains one of the largest State-operated museums in the United States, with collections totaling over 9.5 million specimens of amphibians, annelids, birds, crustaceans, fish, fungi, insects, mammals, mollusks, plants, and reptiles from around the world.

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Information retrieval

Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant to an information need.

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Integrative bioinformatics

Integrative bioinformatics is a discipline of bioinformatics that focuses on problems of data integration for the life sciences.

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International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of and the nomenclature for viruses.

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Laboratory mouse

The laboratory mouse or lab mouse is a small mammal of the order Rodentia which is bred and used for scientific research or feeders for certain pets.

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List of biological databases

Biological databases are stores of biological information. Biological database and List of biological databases are biological databases.

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Medication

A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell metabolism.

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Microarray

A microarray is a multiplex lab-on-a-chip.

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Model organism

A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Model organism database

Model organism databases (MODs) are biological databases, or knowledgebases, dedicated to the provision of in-depth biological data for intensively studied model organisms. Biological database and model organism database are biological databases.

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Mouse Genome Informatics

Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) is a free, online database and bioinformatics resource hosted by The Jackson Laboratory, with funding by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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National Center for Biotechnology Information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands.

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Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research is an open-access peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1974 by the Oxford University Press.

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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a continuously updated catalog of human genes and genetic disorders and traits, with a particular focus on the gene-phenotype relationship.

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Ontology (information science)

In information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definitions of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, or entities that pertain to one, many, or all domains of discourse.

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.

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PomBase

PomBase is a model organism database that provides online access to the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe genome sequence and annotated features, together with a wide range of manually curated functional gene-specific data.

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Protein Data Bank

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, which is overseen by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB). Biological database and protein Data Bank are biological databases.

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Protein structure database

In biology, a protein structure database is a database that is modeled around the various experimentally determined protein structures. Biological database and protein structure database are biological databases.

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Proteomics

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins.

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PubMed

PubMed is a free database including primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. Biological database and PubMed are biological databases.

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Rat Genome Database

The Rat Genome Database (RGD) is a database of rat genomics, genetics, physiology and functional data, as well as data for comparative genomics between rat, human and mouse.

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Relational database

A relational database (RDB) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Structural Classification of Proteins database

The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a largely manual classification of protein structural domains based on similarities of their structures and amino acid sequences. Biological database and structural Classification of Proteins database are biological databases.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_database

Also known as Bioinformatics databank, Bioinformatics databanks, Biological Databases, Biological significance of databases.

, Species, Structural Classification of Proteins database, Timeline of the evolutionary history of life, UniProt, Western clawed frog, WormBase, Xenbase, XML, Zebrafish Information Network.

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