Research Guides: Computer & Data Sciences: Bioinformatics

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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Collection of public databases for research in computational biology, genome data, and biomedical information
Online Bioinformatics Resource Collection (OBRC)
The University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Library System contains annotations and links to over 2,800 bioinformatics databases and software tools on DNA sequences and analysis, enzymes and pathways, genomics, protein sequences, proteomics, RNA, and structures databases.

PubMed
Provides a search engine and index to citations and abstracts for life sciences and biomedical literature from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE database. Other databases available include the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Bookshelf, the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus of terminology, and numerous nucleic acid and protein sequence libraries. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central (public access) and external databases to which CWRU subscribes.
BIOSIS Previews (includes Biological Abstracts)
BIOSIS Previews (includes Biological Abstracts) collects abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature. Biological Abstracts contains references to journal items focusing on vital biological and medical research findings, pharmacological studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Approximately 5,500 international journals are monitored, representing virtually every life science discipline. BIOSIS Previews also covers international meetings, review articles, books, and monographs.

(GIGA)ⁿ DB
Open repository of datasets that support the research published in the open access BioMed Central bioinformatics journal, GigaScience.
ExPASy - Bioinformatic Resource Portal
ExPASy is an extensible and integrative portal accessing many scientific resources, databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences that was created by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
EBI, part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, provides databases and tools that allow users to find and share data, perform complex queries and analyze the results.

GitHub
GitHub is a development platform used to host and review code, manage projects, and build software.
Code Ocean
Code Ocean is a cloud-based computational reproducibility platform that provides researchers and developers an easy way to share, discover and run code published in academic journals and conferences. Code Ocean was developed by IEEE.

Biological Data Repositories
Recommended by Nature. Includes repositories for Nucleic acid sequence; Protein sequence; Molecular & supramolecular structure; Neuroscience; Omics; Taxonomy & species diversity; Mathematical & modelling resources; Cytometry and Immunology; Imaging; Organism-focused resources

NCBI YouTube Channel
Video tutorials on NCBI databases and tools that include BLAST, Genome Workbench, Sequence Viewer, RefSeq Gene, etc.
Find Published Information on a Gene or Sequence
Instructions from NCBI
Find a Curated Version of a Sequence
Instructions from NCBI
Bioinformatics
Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute website that demonstrates finding genes, finding functions and examining variation through the use of bioinformatics.
Computational Genomics and Data Science Program
Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute website.