Technology or method
Bioinformatics
Using computers to store, search and analyze biological data such as DNA and protein sequences.
Biological databases
Public archives such as GenBank for sequences, UniProt for proteins and the Protein Data Bank for structures.Source: NCBISource: UniProt Consortium, 2023Source: Berman et al., 2000
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Biological databases is used by
Technology or method
BLAST
A fast heuristic tool for finding similar sequences in large databases.
Biological databases contains
Idea or model
Protein structure
Atomic models of proteins, first solved by X-ray crystallography, are shared openly through the Protein Data Bank.
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GenBank Overview (opens the original in a new tab)
National Center for Biotechnology Information. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. National Library of Medicine, NIH.
DatabaseGovernment sourceUniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023 (opens the original in a new tab)
UniProt Consortium (2023). Nucleic Acids Research 51:D523-D531.
Peer-reviewedPrimary researchThe Protein Data Bank (opens the original in a new tab)
Berman HM, Westbrook J, Feng Z, et al. (2000). Nucleic Acids Research 28:235-242.
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