Bioinformatics resources

Name URL Category Description Availability Platforms Contact person email Institution Remarks Reference
A list of bioinformatic courses http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/bioinfocourse/ Course A list of bioinformatic courses links            
Biocomputing Course Resource List : Course Syllabi http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/syllabi.html Course A collection of links towards biocomputing course syllabi links            
BioComputing Hypertext Coursebook http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/ Course The following set of tutorial texts has been developed for the award-winning VSNS-BCD BioComputing Courses, aimed at a mixed audience of biologists, computer scientists, and students + researchers of related areas, on a late undergraduate / graduate level. web page; postscript            
Blocks http://blocks.fhcrc.org/ Database Motif database web page            
Entrez http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/ Database Entrez is a retrieval system for searching several linked databases.              
Expasy http://www.expasy.ch/ Database The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences and structures as well as 2-D PAGE              
PDB http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ Database The worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D biological macromolecular structure data. database            
Pfam http://www.cgr.ki.se/Pfam/ Database Protein families database of alignments and HMMs              
PROSITE http://www.expasy.ch/prosite/ Database Motif database web page            
RegulonDB http://www.cifn.unam.mx/Computational_Biology/regulondb/ Database Transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli and predictions in all other bacteria web page   Julio Collado-Vides collado@cifn.unam.mx Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico    
SRS http://srs.ebi.ac.uk Database Multiple database querying and analytic tools              
The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database http://umbbd.ahc.umn.edu/ Database Microbial biocatalytic reactions and biodegradation pathways primarily for xenobiotic, chemical compounds web page   Lynda Ellis BBDMaster@mail.ahc.umn.edu      
GeneMark http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/ Gene finding A family of gene prediction programs. web page   Mark Borodovsky's   Georgia Institute of Technology prokaryotes and eukaryotes; programs are trained in an organism-specific way  
GlimmerM http://www.tigr.org/software/glimmerm/ Gene finding GlimmerM is a gene finder developed specifically for small eukaryotes with a gene density of around 20%. Currently, the system is trained for Plasmodium falciparum (the malaria parasite), Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), and Aspergillus. web page            
Grail http://compbio.ornl.gov/Grail-1.3/ Gene finding           Oak Ridge National Laboratory    
GrailEXP http://grail.lsd.ornl.gov/grailexp/ Gene finding           Oak Ridge National Laboratory    
Cluster http://rana.lbl.gov/downloads/Cluster.zip Microarray Perform a variety of types of cluster analysis and other types of processing on large microarray datasets. Currently includes hierarchical clustering, self-organizing maps (SOMs), k-means clustering, principal component analysis. download windows Michael Eisen mbeisen@lbl.gov University of California at Berkeley (UCB)   Eisen, M. B., Spellman, P. T., Brown, P. O. & Botstein, D. (1998). Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95(25), 14863-8. 
DNA-arrays analysis tools http://bioinfo.cnio.es/dnarray/analysis/ Microarray sample correlation plot, hierarchical, self-organising neural network, various tree viewers web tools            
Eisen lab http://rana.lbl.gov/ Microarray   web page   Michael Eisen mbeisen@lbl.gov University of California at Berkeley (UCB)    
ScanAlyze http://rana.lbl.gov/downloads/ScanAlyze.zip Microarray Process fluorescent images of microarrays. Includes semi-automatic definition of grids and complex pixel and spot analyses. Outputs to tab-delimited text files for transfer to any database. Written by Michael Eisen. download windows Michael Eisen mbeisen@lbl.gov University of California at Berkeley (UCB)    
Software comparison http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/~b400559/arraysoft.html Microarray Comparison of microarray analysis and database softwares comparison web page     yfleung@cuhk.edu.hk      
Software comparison http://www.ncgr.org/genex/other_tools.html Microarray   web page            
Stanford microarray database http://genome-www5.stanford.edu/MicroArray/SMD/ Microarray SMD stores raw and normalized data from microarray experiments, as well as their corresponding image files.
In addition, SMD provides interfaces for data retrieval, analysis and visualization. Data is released to the public at the researcher's discretion or upon publication.
database            
TreeView http://rana.lbl.gov/downloads/TreeView.zip Microarray Graphically browse results of clustering and other analyses from Cluster. Supports tree-based and image based browsing of hierarchical trees. Multiple output formats for generation of images for publications. download windows Michael Eisen mbeisen@lbl.gov University of California at Berkeley (UCB)   Eisen, M. B., Spellman, P. T., Brown, P. O. & Botstein, D. (1998). Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95(25), 14863-8. 
Expression Profiler http://ep.ebi.ac.uk/ Microarray analysis   web tools   Jaak Vilo vilo@ebi.ac.uk European Bioinformatics Institute    
ArrayExpress http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray/ArrayExpress/arrayexpress.html Microarray database ArrayExpress is a public repository for microarray based gene expression data. database   Alvis Brazma brazma@ebi.ac.uk European Bioinformatics Institute Under construction  
GeneX http://genex.ncgr.org/ Microarray database An open source gene expression database. download            
The Brown lab http://cmgm.stanford.edu/pbrown/ Microarray resources   web page            
GMEP http://rana.lbl.gov/downloads/gmep Microarray;
sequence analysis
Compute genome-mean expression profiles from expression and sequence data. download unix Michael Eisen mbeisen@lbl.gov University of California at Berkeley (UCB)   Chiang, D. Y., Brown, P. O. & Eisen, M. B. (2001). Visualizing associations between genome sequences and gene expression data using genome-mean expression profiles. Bioinformatics 17(Suppl 1), S49-55. 
SDSC Biology Workbench http://workbench.sdsc.edu/ Package The WorkBench allows biologists to search many popular protein and nucleic acid sequence databases. Database searching is integrated with access to a wide variety of analysis and modeling tools, all within a point and click interface that eliminates file format compatibility problems. web page     bwbhelp@sdsc.edu San Diego Supercomputer Center    
Phylip http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html Phylogeny PHYLIP is a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies. It is distributed as source code, documentation files, and a number of different types of executables. download Unix, Windows Joe Felsenstein joe@genetics.washington.edu University of Washington    
Phylip on the web http://sdmc.krdl.org.sg:8080/~lxzhang/phylip/ Phylogeny   web page            
Phylip on the web http://bioweb.pasteur.fr/seqanal/phylogeny/phylip-uk.html Phylogeny   web page            
TreeView http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/treeview.html Phylogeny Tree drawing software for Apple Macintosh and Windows, and Linux download windows; Mac; linux Roderic D.M. Page r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk University of Glasgow    
BLAST server http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/ Seaarch sequences in databases BLAST server. The different versions and flavours of BLAST are implemented. web page     blast-help@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov NCBI   Altschul, S. F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E. W. & Lipman, D. J. (1990). Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol 215(3), 403-10. 
Altschul, S. F., Madden, T. L., Schaffer, A. A., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z., Miller, W. & Lipman, D. J. (1997). Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res 25(17), 3389-402. 
TMHMM http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/TMHMM/ Secondary structure Prediction of transmembrane helices in proteins web page            
clustal ftp://ftp-igbmc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/ClustalX/ Sequence alignment   download            
dotter http://www.cgr.ki.se/cgr/groups/sonnhammer/Dotter.html Sequence alignment Dotter is a graphical dotplot program for detailed comparison of two sequences. download Unix, Windows Erik L.L. Sonnhammer and Richard Durbin        
SignalP http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/ Sequence analysis Predicts the presence and location of signal peptide cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from different organisms: Gram-positive prokaryotes, Gram-negative prokaryotes, and eukaryotes. The method incorporates a prediction of cleavage sites and a signal peptide/non-signal peptide prediction based on a combination of several artificial neural networks. web page            
RSA-Tools http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/rsat/ Sequence analysis;
transcriptional regulation
A series of tools for the analysis of reegulatory sequences. web page   Jacques van Helden van-helden.j@univmed.fr Universite Libre de Bruxelle   van Helden, J., Andre, B. & Collado-Vides, J. (2000). A web site for the computational analysis of yeast regulatory sequences. Yeast 16(2), 177-87. 
GDE http://ftp.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/unix/GDE/ Sequence editing   download            
EMBOSS http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMBOSS/ Software suite The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite.  EMBOSS is a package of high-quality FREE Open Source software for sequence analysis download Unix          
R http://www.r-project.org/ Statistics Statistical package with many librairies, including some specific librairies for the analysis of microarray data download Unix, Windows, Mac          
CATH http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/cath_new/ Structure Database of structure classification web page            
CE http://cl.sdsc.edu/ce.html Structure Structure comparison and alignment web page            
chime http://www.umass.edu/microbio/chime/ Structure Chime is a free program to show molecular structure in three dimensions. plug-in            
PredictProtein http://cubic.bioc.columbia.edu/predictprotein/predictprotein.html Structure A collection of tools for predicting secondary and tertiary protein structure. web page; download   Burkhard Rost   Columbia University Bioinformatics Center    
Protein explorer http://molvis.sdsc.edu/protexpl/index.htm Structure Software for looking at macromolecular structure and its relation to function download            
Rasmol http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/rasmol/ Structure   download Unix, Windows, Mac          
Rasmol http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/rasquick.htm Structure RasMol Quick Start tutorial            
SCOP http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/ Structure Database of structure classification web page            
Rasmol quick start http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/rasquick.htm Structure tutorial RasMol Quick Start web page            
Rasmol help http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/softhelp.htm Structure tutorials Liks to various Rasmol tutorials web page