List of biological databases

Meta databases are databases of databases that collect data about data to generate new data. They are capable of merging information from different sources and making it available in a new and more convenient form, or with an emphasis on a particular disease or organism. Originally, metadata was only a common term referring simply to data about data such as tags, keywords, and markup headers.

• ConsensusPathDB: a molecular functional interaction database, integrating information from 12 others
• Entrez (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
• Neuroscience Information Framework (University of California, San Diego): integrates hundreds of neuroscience relevant resources; many are listed below

Model organism databases provide in-depth biological data for intensively studied organisms.

• PomBase: the knowledgebase for the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe^[3]
• SubtiWiki: integrated database for the model bacterium Bacillus subtilis^[4]
• TAIR: the knowledgebase for the plant Arabidopsis thaliana^[5]

(See also: List of proteins in the human body)

Several publicly available data repositories and resources have been developed to support and manage protein related information, biological knowledge discovery and data-driven hypothesis generation.^[15] The databases in the table below are selected from the databases listed in the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) databases issues and database collection and the databases cross-referenced in the UniProtKB. Most of these databases are cross-referenced with UniProt / UniProtKB so that identifiers can be mapped to each other.^[15]

Proteins in human:

There are about ~20,000 protein coding genes in the standard human genome. (Roughly ~1200 already have Wikipedia articles - the Gene Wiki - about them) if we are Including splice variants, there could be as many as 500,000 unique human proteins^[16]

Different types of Protein databases

See also: Protein structure database

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DB name	DB website	Provider	Data sources	Revenue/Sponsors sources	Integrates	Desc.	Size	DB type	Actively maintained
InterPro	http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/	ELIXIR infrastructure	European Bioinformatics Institute	EMBL, The Welcome trust, BBSRC	CATH-Gene3D, CDD, HAMAP, MobiDB, PANTHER, Pfam, SMART, SUPERFAMILY, SFLD, TIGRFAMs,	classifies proteins into families and predicts the presence of domains and sites		Protein sequence databases	Yes
NextProt	https://www.nextprot.org/	CALIPHO (is a group at the SIB)	Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	https://www.sib.swiss/about/funding-sources	UniProt, Cellosaurus, Gnomad, IntAct, SRAA Atlas, Uniprot - GOA, BGEE, COSMIC, MassIVE, Peptide atlas	a human protein-centric knowledge resource		Protein sequence databases	Yes
Wiki-pi	http://severus.dbmi.pitt.edu/wiki-pi/	Madhavi K. Ganapathiraju					At present Wiki-Pi contains 48,419 unique interactions among 10,492 proteins. However it is not clear if this is unique proteins[13]	Protein interaction Database	??
Human Protein Reference Database			Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore, India				One source claims 15000 [17] proteins. But it is unclear how many of these are unique
Pfam			Sanger Institute			protein families database of alignments and HMMs		Protein sequence databases
Human Proteinpedia			Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University,				The human Proteinpedia is based on HPRD (Human protein reference database)which is a repository hosting over 30,000 human proteins. However it is unclear how many of these are unique proteins
Human Protein Atlas				The Swedish Government			It contains roughly 10 million IHC images of a bit less than 25,000 antibodies. But once again it is unclear how many of these are unique
PRINTS			Manchester University			a compendium of protein fingerprints		Protein sequence databases
PROSITE						database of protein families and domains		Protein sequence databases
Protein Information Resource			Georgetown University Medical Center [GUMC]					Protein sequence databases
SUPERFAMILY						library of HMMs representing superfamilies and database of (superfamily and family) annotations for all completely sequenced organisms		Protein sequence databases
Swiss-Prot			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics			protein knowledgebase		Protein sequence databases
Protein Data Bank						Protein DataBank in Europe (PDBe),[18] ProteinDatabank in Japan (PDBj),[19] Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)[20]	(PDB)	Protein structure databases
Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP)								Protein structure databases
CATH database								Protein structure databases
ModBase				Sali Lab, UCSF			database of comparative protein structure models	Protein model databases
SIMAP						database of protein similarities computed using FASTA		Protein model databases
Swiss-model						server and repository for protein structure models		Protein model databases
AAindex						database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials		Protein model databases
BioGRID				Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute		general repository for interaction datasets		Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
RNA-binding protein database								Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
Database of Interacting Proteins			Univ. of California					Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
IntAct[21]			EMBL-EBI			open-source database for molecular interactions		Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
String						an open source molecular interaction database to study interactions between proteins		Protein-protein and other molecular interactions
Human Protein Atlas						Human Protein Atlas	aims at mapping all the human proteins in cells, tissues and organs	Protein expression databases
ProteinModelPortal	Protein Model Portal of the PSI-Nature Structural Biology Knowledgebase	??		??				3D structure protein databases
SWISS-MODEL Repository	Database of annotated 3D protein structure models	University of Basel		The Swiss government				3D structure protein databases
DisProt	Database of Protein Disorder	ELIXIR infrastructure	Indiana University School of Medicine, Temple University, University of Padua	funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020	Swiss Prot/Uni Prot, CATH, Pfam, Europe PMC, BITEM, ECO, Geneontology	database of experimental evidences of disorder in proteins		3D structure protein databases, Protein sequence databases
MobiDB	Database of intrinsically disordered and mobile proteins	John Moult, Christine Orengo, Predrag Radivojac	University of Padua	Italian Government		database of intrinsic protein disorder annotation		3D structure protein databases, Protein sequence databases
ModBase	Database of Comparative Protein Structure Models	Ursula Pieper, Ben Webb, Narayanan Eswar, Andrej Sali Roberto Sanchez		UCSF, Sali Lab				3D structure protein databases
PDBsum	Pictorial database of 3D structures in the Protein Data Bank	European Bioinformatics Institute 2013		Wellcome Trust				3D structure protein databases
CCDS	The Consensus CDS protein set database	NCBI		??				Sequence databases
UniProtKB	Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)	??		??				Sequence databases
Swiss Prot/Uni Prot	https://www.sib.swiss/swiss-prot and https://www.uniprot.org/		SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics	European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)			Swiss-Prot has collected over 81 000 variants in roughly 13,000 human protein sequence records from peer-reviewed literature. It is unclear how many unique proteins types are present in the database.

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• NCI-Nature Pathway Interaction Database
• Netpath: curated resource of signal transduction pathways in humans
• Reactome: navigable map of human biological pathways, ranging from metabolic processes to hormonal signalling (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, European Bioinformatics Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• WikiPathways

Numerous databases collect information about species and other taxonomic categories. The Catalogue of Life is a special case as it is a meta-database of about 150 specialized "global species databases" (GSDs) that have collected the names and other information on (almost) all described and thus "known" species.

• BacDive: bacterial metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity, including taxonomy information
• Catalogue of Life: a meta-database of all species on earth
• EzTaxon-e: database for the identification of prokaryotes based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences
• NCBI Taxonomy: a taxonomic database operated by NCBI and concentrating on all taxa for which DNA sequences are available (those sequences are stored by GenBank, another database operated by NCBI).

Images play a critical role in biomedicine, ranging from images of anthropological specimens to zoology. However, there are relatively few databases dedicated to image collection, although some projects such as iNaturalist collect photos as a main part of their data. A special case of "images" are 3-dimensional images such as protein structures or 3D-reconstructions of anatomical structures. Image databases include, among others:^[22]

• Allen Brain Atlas
• Digital Brain Bank^[23]
• Electron Microscopy Public Image Archive (EMPIAR)^[24]
• Image Data Resource^[22]
• Morphobank
• Morphosource

• Gene Wiki
• WikiSpecies
• WikiProfessional