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http://db-mml.sjtu.edu.cn/ICEberg/

ICEberg is an integrated database that provides comprehensive information about integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) found in bacteria. ICEs are conjugative self-transmissible elements that can integrate into and excise from a host chromosome. An ICE contains three typical modules, integration and excision, conjugation, and regulation modules, that collectively promote vertical inheritance and periodic lateral gene flow. Many ICEs carry likely virulence determinants, antibiotic-resistant factors and/or genes coding for other beneficial traits. ICEberg offers a unique, highly organized, readily explorable archive of both predicted and experimentally supported ICE-relevant data. It currently contains details of 428 ICEs found in representatives of 124 bacterial species, and a collection of >400 directly related references. A broad range of similarity search, sequence alignment, genome context browser, phylogenetic and other functional analysis tools are readily accessible via ICEberg. ICEberg will facilitate efficient, multidisciplinary and innovative exploration of bacterial ICEs and be of particular interest to researchers in the broad fields of prokaryotic evolution, pathogenesis, biotechnology and metabolism. The ICEberg database will be maintained, updated and improved regularly to ensure its ongoing maximum utility to the research community.

Proper citation: ICEberg (RRID:SCR_006026) Copy   

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http://www.benchfly.com/

A video production and hosting resource designed to help scientists record and share lab protocols. The site also makes video protocols available.

Proper citation: BenchFly (RRID:SCR_006259) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/

Public archive providing a comprehensive record of the world''''s nucleotide sequencing information, covering raw sequencing data, sequence assembly information and functional annotation. All submitted data, once public, will be exchanged with the NCBI and DDBJ as part of the INSDC data exchange agreement. The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) captures and presents information relating to experimental workflows that are based around nucleotide sequencing. A typical workflow includes the isolation and preparation of material for sequencing, a run of a sequencing machine in which sequencing data are produced and a subsequent bioinformatic analysis pipeline. ENA records this information in a data model that covers input information (sample, experimental setup, machine configuration), output machine data (sequence traces, reads and quality scores) and interpreted information (assembly, mapping, functional annotation). Data arrive at ENA from a variety of sources including submissions of raw data, assembled sequences and annotation from small-scale sequencing efforts, data provision from the major European sequencing centers and routine and comprehensive exchange with their partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC). Provision of nucleotide sequence data to ENA or its INSDC partners has become a central and mandatory step in the dissemination of research findings to the scientific community. ENA works with publishers of scientific literature and funding bodies to ensure compliance with these principles and to provide optimal submission systems and data access tools that work seamlessly with the published literature. ENA is made up of a number of distinct databases that includes the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (Embl-Bank), the newly established Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the Trace Archive. The main tool for downloading ENA data is the ENA Browser, which is available through REST URLs for easy programmatic use. All ENA data are available through the ENA Browser. Note: EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database (EMBL-Bank) is entirely included within this resource.

Proper citation: European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) (RRID:SCR_006515) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum

Pictorial database of an at-a-glance overview of the contents of each 3D structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). It shows the molecule(s) that make up the structure (ie protein chains, DNA, ligands and metal ions) and schematic diagrams of their interactions. Extensive use is made of the freely available RasMol molecular graphics program to view the molecules and their interactions in 3D. Entries are accessed either by their 4-character PDB code, or by one of the two search boxes provided on the PDBsum home page: text search or sequence search. The information given on each PDBsum entry is spread across several pages, as listed below and accessible from the tabs at the top of the page. Only the relevant tabs will be present on any given page. * Top page - summary information including thumbnail image of structure, molecules in structure, enzyme reaction diagram (where relevant), GO functional assignments, and selected figures from key reference * Protein - wiring diagram, topology diagram(s) by CATH domain, and residue conservation (where available) * DNA/RNA - DNA/RNA sequence and NUCPLOT showing interactions made with protein * Ligands - description of bound molecule and LIGPLOT showing interactions made with protein * Prot-prot - schematic diagrams of any protein-protein interfaces and the residue-residue interactions made across them * Clefts - listing of top ten clefts in the surface of the protein, listed by volume with any bound ligands shown * Links - links to external databases Additionally, it accepts users'''' own PDB format files and generates a private set of analyses for each uploaded structure.

Proper citation: PDBsum (RRID:SCR_006511) Copy   

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http://ctdbase.org/

A public database that enhances understanding of the effects of environmental chemicals on human health. Integrated GO data and a GO browser add functionality to CTD by allowing users to understand biological functions, processes and cellular locations that are the targets of chemical exposures. CTD includes curated data describing cross-species chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease associations to illuminate molecular mechanisms underlying variable susceptibility and environmentally influenced diseases. These data will also provide insights into complex chemical–gene and protein interaction networks.

Proper citation: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) (RRID:SCR_006530) Copy   

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http://pridb.gdcb.iastate.edu/RPISeq

Web application for RNA-protein interactions prediction.

Proper citation: RPISeq (RRID:SCR_027257) Copy   

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http://www.thesgc.org/

Charity registered in United Kingdom whose mission is to accelerate research in new areas of human biology and drug discovery.Not for profit, public-private partnership that carries out basic science of relevance to drug discovery whose core mandate is to determine 3D structures on large scale and cost effectively targeting human proteins of biomedical importance and proteins from human parasites that represent potential drug targets.

Proper citation: Structural Genomics Consortium (RRID:SCR_003890) Copy   

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http://www.pharma-planta.net/

Consortium to develop efficient and safe strategies for the production of clinical-grade protein pharmaceuticals in plants, and to define the procedures needed for the production of these proteins in compliance with the strict regulatory standards that govern the manufacture of all pharmaceuticals. Ultimately the consortium aimed to take a candidate product all the way through the development pipeline culminating in a phase I human clinical trial. The consortium has a wide range of expertise spanning the areas of molecular biology, plant biology, immunology, recombinant protein expression technology, vaccinology, and plant biotechnology. The objectives listed at the beginning of the Pharma-Planta project are as follows: # To produce a recombinant pharmaceutical molecule in transgenic plants, which will be developed through all regulatory requirements, GMP (good manufacturing practice) standards and pre-clinical toxicity testing. This will then be evaluated in Phase I human clinical trials. # To develop robust risk assessment practices for recombinant pharmaceutical molecules produced in plants, based on health and environmental impact, working with regulatory authorities within the EU as well as public groups to ensure that the production systems are as safe and as acceptable as possible, and that they comply with all biosafety regulations. # To define and carry out a coordinated program for securing and managing intellectual property that will facilitate the availability of high priority plant-derived recombinant pharmaceuticals to the poor in developing countries while simultaneously allowing the products to be developed commercially in Europe and North America. # To develop and refine new strategies for the expression of recombinant pharmaceuticals in plants, which can be used on a generic basis for molecules that are normally expressed poorly. # To develop and generate transgenic plants expressing a second generation of recombinant molecules that will be used in future clinical trials. In 2011 they reached their benchmark for success launching a phase I clinical study of an antibody that neutralizes HIV, produced in and isolated from tobacco plants. This antibody could one day become an inexpensive component of a microbicide used to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. The project has also spun off many additional technologies that are being adopted by researchers all over the world, and has resulted in more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Proper citation: Pharma-Planta Consortium (RRID:SCR_003880) Copy   

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/

The European resource for the collection, organization and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures. In collaboration with the other worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partners - the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) and BioMagResBank (BMRB) in the USA and the Protein Data Bank of Japan (PDBj) - they work to collate, maintain and provide access to the global repository of macromolecular structure data. The main objectives of the work at PDBe are: * to provide an integrated resource of high-quality macromolecular structures and related data and make it available to the biomedical community via intuitive user interfaces. * to maintain in-house expertise in all the major structure-determination techniques (X-ray, NMR and EM) in order to stay abreast of technical and methodological developments in these fields, and to work with the community on issues of mutual interest (such as data representation, harvesting, formats and standards, or validation of structural data). * to provide high-quality deposition and annotation facilities for structural data as one of the wwPDB deposition sites. Several sophisticated tools are also available for the structural analysis of macromolecules.

Proper citation: PDBe - Protein Data Bank in Europe (RRID:SCR_004312) Copy   

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http://www.wholecellkb.org/

A collection of free, open-source model organism databases designed specifically to enable comprehensive, dynamic simulations of entire cells and organisms. WholeCellKB provides comprehensive, quantitative descriptions of individual species including: * Their subcellular organization, * Their chromosome sequences, * The essentiality, location, length, direction, and homologs of each gene, * The organization and promoter of each transcription unit, * The expression and degradation rate of each RNA gene product, * The specific folding and maturation pathway of each RNA and protein species including the localization, N-terminal cleavage, signal sequence, prosthetic groups, disulfide bonds, and chaperone interactions of each protein species, * The subunit composition of each macromolecular complex, * Their genetic code, * The binding sites and footprint of every DNA-binding protein, * The structure, charge, and hydrophobicity of every metabolite, * The stoichiometry, catalysis, coenzymes, energetics, and kinetics of every chemical reaction, * The regulatory strength of each transcription factor on each promoter, * Their chemical composition, and * The composition of its typical SP-4 laboratory growth medium. WholeCellKB currently contains a single database of Mycoplasma genitalium, an extremely small gram-positive bacterium and common human pathogen. This database is the most comprehensive description of any single organism to date, and was used to develop the first whole-cell computational model. Users can download the WholeCellKB source code and content to create and customize - including the content, data model, and user interface - their own model organism database.

Proper citation: WholeCellKB (RRID:SCR_004104) Copy   

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http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/biochem/faculty/truant/truantlab.htm

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, documented on March 21, 2013. Laboratory portal of Ray Truant, PhD. It provides an image gallery and videos.

Proper citation: Ray Truant Lab (RRID:SCR_004301) Copy   

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http://noble.gs.washington.edu/proj/philius/

Web server that predicts protein transmembrane topology and signal peptides. Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been successfully applied to the tasks of transmembrane protein topology prediction and signal peptide prediction. They expand upon this work by making use of the more powerful class of dynamic Bayesian networks (DBN). Their model, Philius, is inspired by a previously published HMM, Phobius, and combines a signal peptide sub-model with a transmembrane sub-model. They introduce a two-stage DBN decoder which combines the power of posterior decoding with the grammar constraints of Viterbi-style decoding. Philius also provides protein type, segment, and topology confidence metrics to aid in the interpretation of the predictions.

Proper citation: Philius (RRID:SCR_004625) Copy   

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http://www.proteopedia.org/

Free, collaborative 3D, interactive encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules, it collects, organizes and disseminates structural and functional knowledge about protein, RNA, DNA, and other macromolecules, and their assemblies and interactions with small molecules, in a manner that is relevant and broadly accessible to students and scientists. With a free user account, users can edit pages in Proteopedia. Click on the green links to change the 3D image or click and drag the molecules. Categories include Diseases & Related Topics, Enzymes, Gene Expression & Replication, Metabolism, Signaling & Transport, Structural Biology and Miscellaneous. Currently, Proteopedia has 93,912 articles (pages), and 2,366 registered users (May 2013). Among other pages, Proteopedia contains one page (or article) for every entry in the World Wide Protein Data Bank. Proteopedia is updated weekly with new entries shortly after they are released by the Protein Data Bank. Most of these pages, which are titled with a four-character PDB identification code, are seeded automatically to include a default view of the asymmetric unit, the abstract of the publication, green links to sites and ligands, and molecule-specific links to other viewers and databases. When you go to a random page, you nearly always get one of these automatically-seeded, PDB-code-titled pages (click Random Page in the navigation box at the upper left), because of their abundance. In addition to one article about each entry in the Protein Data Bank (PDB identification code-titled articles), there are articles titled with the name of a molecule or a subject, instead of a PDB identification code. Some of these articles that have substantial content are listed at Topic Pages, or you can browse a complete list of articles not titled with a PDB identification code. There are also articles About Macromolecular Structure.

Proper citation: Proteopedia - Life in 3D (RRID:SCR_004647) Copy   

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http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi

Web search tool to find regions of similarity between biological sequences. Program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates statistical significance. Used for identifying homologous sequences.

Proper citation: NCBI BLAST (RRID:SCR_004870) Copy   

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http://www.pantherdb.org/

System that classifies genes by their functions, using published scientific experimental evidence and evolutionary relationships to predict function even in absence of direct experimental evidence. Orthologs view is curated orthology relationships between genes for human, mouse, rat, fish, worm, and fly., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: PANTHER (RRID:SCR_004869) Copy   

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http://www.scfbio-iitd.res.in/sanjeevini/sanjeevini.jsp

A complete drug designing software suite with an accessible web-server for targeted directed lead molecule discovery.

Proper citation: Sanjeevini (RRID:SCR_000191) Copy   

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http://www.bork.embl.de/j/

The main focus of this Computational Biology group is to predict function and to gain insights into evolution by comparative analysis of complex molecular data. The group currently works on three different scales: * genes and proteins, * protein networks and cellular processes, and * phenotypes and environments. They require both tool development and applications. Some selected projects include comparative gene, genome and metagenome analysis, mapping interactions to proteins and pathways as well as the study of temporal and spatial protein network aspects. All are geared towards the bridging of genotype and phenotype through a better understanding of molecular and cellular processes. The services - resources & tools, developed by Bork Group, are mainly designed and maintained for research & academic purposes. Most of services are published and documented in one or more papers. All our tools can be completely customized and integrated into your existing framework. This service is provided by the company biobyte solutions GmbH. Please visit their tools and services pages for full details and more information. Standard commercial licenses for our tools are also available through biobyte solutions GmbH. The group is partially associated with Max Delbr��ck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin.

Proper citation: EMBL - Bork Group (RRID:SCR_000810) Copy   

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http://megasoftware.net/

Software integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. Used for comparative analysis of DNA and protein sequences to infer molecular evolutionary patterns of genes, genomes, and species over time. MEGA version 4 expands on existing facilities for editing DNA sequence data from autosequencers, mining Web-databases, performing automatic and manual sequence alignment, analyzing sequence alignments to estimate evolutionary distances, inferring phylogenetic trees, and testing evolutionary hypotheses. MEGA version 6 enables inference of timetrees, as it implements RelTime method for estimating divergence times for all branching points in phylogeny.

Proper citation: MEGA (RRID:SCR_000667) Copy   

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http://dbserv2.informatik.uni-leipzig.de:8080/onex/

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 6,2023. Web-based application that integrates versions of 16 life science ontologies including the Gene Ontology, NCI Thesaurus and selected OBO ontologies with data leading back to 2002 in a common repository to explore ontology changes. It allows to study and apply the evolution of these integrated ontologies on three different levels. It provides global ontology evolution statistics and ontology-specific evolution trends for concepts and relationships and it allows the migration of annotations in case a new ontology version was released

Proper citation: OnEx - Ontology Evolution Explorer (RRID:SCR_000602) Copy   

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http://www.ispybio.com/

Search engine for Life scientists that ranks reagents by the amount of data available, such as publications, reviews, characterization images and tested applications. It displays reagents such as antibodies, proteins, ELISA kits and biomolecules. Its proprietary search algorithm is unique and rapidly analyzes the end-user's search query against its large database, while powerful filters allow the user to enhance search results. As iSpyBio syncs with supplier and other public databases, it is always up-to-date - allowing iSpyBio to exclude out of stock items, whilst also showing the most recent testing results and peer-reviewed publications.

Proper citation: iSpyBio.com (RRID:SCR_000465) Copy   

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