A Starting Guide to Biological Databases
Confused about what the EMBL database is? What about MGD, MTB, or SNPSTR? Maybe you’re intrigued by TIGRFAM, U12DB, or VNTRDB? Do you find KNDBSPRAL frustrating?
Ok, I made that last one up. But seriously, there are a ton of biology databases these days, and I find it hard to wrap my mind around all of them. This issue of Nucleic Acids Research is pretty helpful as a starting point, though. There are some obscure databases on there, too, but they hit several of the major ones. And every article in the issue is open access!
