Bioinformatics: Web Resources

The National Centre for Biotechnology Information is a central provider of bioinformatics resources and services for the US.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and European Bioinformatics Institute. These databases provide bioinformatics data held be EMBL/EBI.

The DNA Data Bank of Japan.Access to databases, software tools and documentation provided by the DDBJ.

Access to protein sequence and functional information. Includes data from Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL.

Database providing extensive structural and functional information for proteins.

Popular resource for viewing, exploring and researching sequenced genomes.

Access to a range of bioinformatics databases, software and resources from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

An extensive, searchable database of bioinformatics tools and resources available on the web. Also searches journal articles describing particular resources. Simultaneous search of the BioMed Central Databases collection.

A curated searchable database of links to bioinformatics web resources. Resources are also arranged by theme and topic.

These online bioinformatics tutorials demonstrate how to use tools and databases supplied by EMBL-EBI to carry out a range of bioinformatics tasks.

The Henry Stewart Talks provide recorded presentations from experts in many areas of biology. This series of talks on 'Using Bioinformatics in the Exploration of Genetic Diversity' provides practical examples of the applications of bioinformatics.

"Mobile view of the "more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites"

App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad; Features multiple ways to search PubMed/MEDLINE: PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome); askMEDLINE, a free-text, natural language search; and Consensus Abstracts. Apple iOS app includes these options as well as BabelMeSH which has search options in 13 languages.

App for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad; Application contains recent research articles, reviews, commentary, and case materials. It also images, audio, and video from Images in Clinical Medicine.

Free app for Android. Webicina offers “Medical Web 2.0” resources on more than 80 medical topics for medical professionals and patients.