Web Resources

Knowledgebase, GATEWAY DBs, Genome Annotations

• Scitable by Nature Learn Science at Nature Education
• EBI
• NCBI
• GOLD Genome Online Database-Genome project statistics and download links
• UCSC genome browser home

Pathway Annotation DBs

• Gene Ontology
• UniPathway a fully manually curated resource of metabolic pathways (cross-linked to KEGG, MetaCyc)
• Biocyc includes Metacyc, Ecocyc, Humancyc, Aracyc, Yeastcyc
• Pathway Interaction Database (PID)
• Reactome A manually curated and peer-reviewed pathway DB

Genomic Variation DBs

• GVS Genome Variation Server (meta DB containing dbSNP, HapMap phase 3)
• dbSNP DB of short genetic variations by NCBI
• 1000 Genome Project Deep catalog of human genetic variation
• HapMap Project Catalog of human genetic variation
• Exome Variant Server by NHLBI GO Exome sequencing project (ESP)
• MutaDATABASE a centralized and standardized DNA variation DB
• HGMD The human gene mutation database (The professional version of DB is commercial.)
• 1001 Genome Project Genetic variation] of natural population of Arabidopsis

Genotype-to-Phenotype Resources

• GWAS catalog contains SNPs with p<10^-5
• GWASdb contains SNPs with p<10^-3
• DistiLD Diseases and Traits in Linkage Disequilibrium Blocks
• Personal Genome Project

Mutation Effect Prediction Tools

• SIFT(Sorting Intolerent from Tolerent substitution)
• PolyPhen-2 (Polymorphism Phenotyping v2)

Gene Expression DBs

• GEO
• Arrayexpress
• PLEXdb Gene expression resources for plant and plant pathogens

Protein Expression DBs

• SUBA SUBcellular location DB for Arabidopsis proteins

Protein/Gene Interaction DBs

• Protemic Standard Initiative Common QUery InterfaCe (PSICQUIC)
• International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx)
• iRefWeb a web interface to PPI consolidated from 10 public DB (BIND, BioGRID, CORUM, DIP,IntAct, HPRD, MINT, MPact, MPPI, OPHID(predicted PPIs))
• BIND the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database
• BioGRID
• CORUM Comprehensive Resource of Mammalian Protein Complexes
• DIP Database of Interacting Proteins
• IntAct
• HPRD Human Protein Reference Database
• MINT Molecular Interaction DB
• Mpact Representation of Interaction Data at MIPS
• MPPI Mammalian PPI DB at MIPS
• STRING Known and predicted PPI

Functional DNA elements DBs

• ENCODE Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project (human, mouse)
• modENCODE Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project in model organisms (worm, fly)
• RegulomeDB Evidences from eQTL, TF binding, matched TF motif, matched DNase Footprint, DNase peak
• hmChIP DB for publicly available human and mouse ChIP-seq and ChIP-chip data
• AGRIS Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server (by OSU)
• TRANSFAC TFBS(PWM) and more
• JASPAR TFBS(PWM)
• DBTSS Transcription start site DB (with tissue specific information)
• EPD The Eukaryotic Promoter Database
• TiProD The tissue-specific Promoter DB

TF Regulation DBs

• AnimalTFDB A comprehensive manually curated animal TF DB (organized by family or species)
• AGRIS Arabidopsis Gene Regulatory Information Server (by OSU)
• PlnTFDB Plant TF database by University of Potsdam, Germany
• PlantTFDB Plant TF database by Peking University, China

miRNA and target DBs

• miRBase miRNA database by Manchester University
• microRNA.org download miRNA expression atlas for human, mouse, rat
• miRGator data for miRNA expression, miRNA-mRNA paired expression profile, miRNA perturbation experiments...
• TarBase Manually curated microRNA-target links (includes high throughput evidences) download page
• miRecords Manually curated microRNA-target links + predicted links (by 11 computational algorithms)
• miRTarBase Manually curated microRNA-target links
• miR2Disease Manually curated microRNA-target links and microRNA-disease links
• Carrington Lab Resource Various DBs for plant miRNA

Phenotype/Disease Annotation DBs

• Disease Ontology Disease ontology files FUNDO DOLite_term-to-genes map
• Human Phenotype Ontology
• OMIM Human disease DB
• UMLS Unified Medical Language Systems
• ICD International Classification of Disease by WHO
• GenomeRNAi A Phenotype DB for large-scale RNAi screens (human, mouse, fly, worm...)
• OGEE Online GEne Essentiality database

Drug/Bio-active chemical DBs

• PubChem A DB contains drug structure and function by NCBI
• ChEMBL A DB contains drug structure and functions by EBI
• SuperDrug A DB contains 3D-structures of drugs

Drug-Target relationship DBs

• KEGG DRUG contains information about only approved drugs
• STITCH DB for known and predicted chemical-protein interaction
• Drugbank A major DB of drug/target
• Therapeutic Target Database (TTD) A major DB of drug/target
• MATADOR Manually Annotated Targets and Drugs Online Resource
• PharmGKB The Parmacogenomics Knowledgebase
• PDSP Ki DB data warehouse for published and internally-derived Ki, or affinity of drugs at targets
• Developmental Therapeutics Program by NCI (contains NCI-60 human tumor cell-line screen data)

Pharmacology DBs

• CTD The Comparative Toxicogenomics database
• SIDER Side Effect Resource
• CEBS Chemical Effects in Biological Systems, an integrated public repository for toxicogenomics data

Animal Genome DBs

• WormBase
• FlyBase
• MGI

Plant Genome DBs

• Plant Physiology web
• TAIR
• Gramene
• RGAP Rice Genome Annotation Project by MSU (Go get the part list here!)
• MaizeGDB
• AgBase Curated DB for functional analysis of agriculural animals and plants

Microbial/Microbiome DBs

• PortEco Portal for E. coli
• Pseudomonas Genome Database
• Saccharomyces Genome Database
• Candida Genome Database
• IMG Integrated Microbial Genomes (include metagenome data)
• CAMERA 2.0 Curated DB and analysis tool for metagenomes
• NCBI Metagenome DB Categorized with metagenome types, sources and sequencing methods.

Cancer Genome/Cell Line Biology DBs

• TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
• ICGC cancer genome project International Cancer Genome Consortium Cancer genome project
• Cancer Cell line Encyclopedia (CCLE) by Broad-Novartis, 1000 cancer cell lines, ~1200 compounds and their combinations
• DTP human tumor cell line screen by NCI-60
• NCI60 mutation data
• GKS Cancer Cell Line Data genomic profiles for 300 cell lines
• COLT-cancer database shRNA-based essential gene profiles for 70 breast, pancreatic, ovarian cancer cell lines

Stem Cell Biology DBs

• SCDE The Stem Cell Discovery Engine
• ESCAPE Embryonic Stem Cell Atlas of Pluripotency Evidence (Many stem cell related networks)

Other Resources

• Sage Bionetworks
• Assay depot Online marketplace for pharmaceutical research service
• CAGI Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation
• Numedii New Indications for Medicines
• nightscience Collective creativity in scientific discovery games