Selected Biosequence Sources on the Internet

1. http://golgi.harvard.edu/sequences.html
   
   WWW Virtual Library - Biosciences: Biosequences Section
   
   
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
   
   Home page for National Center for Biotechnology Information. Home to a wide variety of relevant databases, including some listed below.
   
   
3. http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html
   
   Entrez: Nucleotides, Proteins, 3-D Structures, Genomes
   From NCBI. Searchable by author, keyword, gene and protein codes, source organism, etc. Display has links between records. Searches multiple databases, including NCBI's GenBank.
   
   
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/
   
   BLAST
   BLAST stands for Basic Local Alignment Search Tool.
   Also from NCBI, links to Entrez. Searches a number of different databases for amino acid or nucleotide sequences.
   
   
5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/
   
   OMIM Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. Database of human genes linked to their products and disorders or syndromes linked to them.
   Extensive links to Entrez.
   
   
6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/irx/cgi-bin/swiss
   
   SWISS-PROT: Protein sequences
   Searchable by sequence, organism, gene, etc.
   (also: http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/sprot-top.html Searchable by authors)
   
   
7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/irx/cgi-bin/pir
   
   PIR: Protein sequences
   Includes journal references
   
   
8. http://expasy.hcuge.ch/
   
   ExPASy : Variety of databases, tools, etc.
   
   
9. http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/pdb-bin/pdbmain
   
   PDB: Protein Data Bank from Brookhaven National Laboratory
   Searchable by author, journal, organism, keyword. Gives sequence, document information, often lengthy remarks.
   
   
10. http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/proteins/owl.html
    
    OWL: Non-redundant Protein Database from Johns Hopkins
    Combines SWISS-PROT, PIR, GenBank, NRL 3-D with links back to original sources. Keyword searchable.
    
    
11. http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs5/
    
    SRS: Sequence Retrieval System:
    This server, at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, allows searching of multiple databases (over 30). Descriptions of the individual databases give less detail than the parent servers.