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Relevant NCBI Resources

For the Building Transparent ML/AI Solutions to Advance Biological Research Codeathon

Collection of NCBI resources that have been requested by codeathon teams or can be beneficial for teams during the event. 

Databases:

  1. GenBank: Comprehensive collection of publicly available DNA sequences and supporting information.
  2. SRA: Archive of raw sequencing data from various sequencing platforms.
  3. BioSample: Collection of descriptions of biological samples used in experimental studies.
  4. PubMed: Database of biomedical literature citations and abstracts.
  5. PMC: Full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles.
  6. ClinVar: Archive of reports of the relationships between human variations and phenotypes.
  7. dbGaP: Archive of datasets from studies that have investigated the interaction of genotypes and phenotypes.
  8. GEO: Public repository for high-throughput gene expression and other functional genomics data.
  9. PubChem: Database of chemical structures and biological activities.
  10. Structure: Archive of 3D biomolecular structures.
  11. Protein: Resource for protein sequence and functional information.
  12. Genome: Resource for whole genome sequencing data.
  13. GTEx: Database of gene expression and regulation across human tissues.
  14. dbSNP: Database of human single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
  15. OMIM: Catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders.

Tools:

  1. BLAST for comparing biological sequences.
  2. Gene for accessing and analyzing gene-specific information.
  3. Entrez search and retrieval system for NCBI databases.
  4. iCn3D for interactively visualizing and analyzing 3D protein structures.


Last Reviewed: January 19, 2024