Table 1.

Gene and Protein Databases.

Database	Full name	Comments	Website	Ref
NCBI GenBank	NIH genetic sequence database	An international DNA sequence database	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank	[45]
EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database/EMBL-Bank	European Molecular Biology Laboratory Nucleotide Sequence Database	Collection of DNA and RNA sequences in Europe and is synchronized with GenBank at NCBI and DDBJ in Japan.	www.ebi.ac.uk/embl	[46]
DDBJ	DNA Data Bank of Japan	Nucleotide sequence database in Japan and in collaboration with EMBL and NCBI GenBank	www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp	[47]
Entrez Gene	-	NCBI database that focuses on gene-to-sequence relationship and provides gene-specific information.	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene	[5]
RefSeq	NCBI Reference Sequences	NCBI collection of non-redundant set of DNA, RNA, and protein sequences.	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/RefSeq	[72]
UniGene	NCBI UniGene	Partitions GenBank sequences into sets of transcript sequences that are likely to represent distinct genes.	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=unigene	[73]
Ensembl	-	A source for comparative chordate genome sequences and gene annotation at EBI/Sanger.	www.ensembl.org	[74]
UCSC Genome Browser Database	University of California Santa Cruz Genome Browser Database	Human genome assembly and customizable track browsers at UCSC.	genome.ucsc.edu/bestlin ks.html	[75]
UniProtKB/TrEMBL	Universal Protein Resource Knowledgebase/Translated European Molecular Biology Laboratories	Computer-curated protein sequence database containing translations of all coding sequences in EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ and also other protein sequences from the literature.	www.ebi.ac.uk/trembl	[49]
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Protein Knowledgebase	Universal Protein Resource Knowledgebase	Manually-curated protein sequence database providing publicly available information about protein sequences.	www.ebi.ac.uk/swissprot	[49]