NAR Databases (Group 13)

(a) Organisation of databases and its major grouping (15 groups)

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Nucleotide Sequence Databases

RNA sequence databases

Protein sequence databases

Structure Databases

Genomics Databases (non-vertebrate)

Metabolic and Signaling Pathways

Human and other Vertebrate Genomes

Human Genes and Diseases

Microarray Data and other Gene Expression Databases

Proteomics Resources

Other Molecular Biology Databases

Organelle databases

Plant databases

Immunological databases

Cell biology

(c) Criteria for selection into NAR databases

Directory organized by biological subject

subcategory are of common task relevant

Resources

static resource whose intention is to convey bioinformatics information

Tool

bioinformatics software or server that can analyse, extract and modify input data to particular databases

Database

biological data store that can be queried

(e) Why some databases are no longer in the databases and dropped from it

Commercialization Purposes

The databases are no longer free

Databases Evolution

Some of the smaller groups of databases have being merge to form a ne database which is more relevant in today's context

Redundancy

Databases having the same or way similar datas and information regarding a specific topic

Diverted from the original objective and purpose of the databases which should be a public-free databases

Databases are not updated and no longer accessible

(b) Numbers available

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Total Databases

1512

14 Major Categories

41 Subcategories

(d) Why we need to group these databases

Incresing numbers of information

scientist, biologists, researchers unable to track tools, databases, methods and their specialty information easily

need for well annotated and user-friendly resource

make it easier for users to search by narrowing or specify their search

due to significant growth in NAR web server that lead to change in type of tool, databases and resources

(f) Why databases are created and shared

Pivotal Reference Resources

Providing literature for further research

Up-to-date Databases Resources

To notify the researchers of newly-discovered information