Abstract The 19th annual Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research features descriptions of
92 new online databases covering various areas of molecular biology and 100 papers …

The mission of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), an outstation of the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, is to ensure that the growing body of …

Abstract The Bioinformatics Links Directory continues its collaboration with Nucleic Acids
Research to collaboratively publish and compile a freely accessible, online collection of …

Abstract The GenBank On-line Service provides access to the GenBank and EMBL nucleic
acid sequence databases and to the Swiss-Prot and GenPept protein sequence databases …

Biological databases are online libraries that contain structured information about living
organisms. These databases are indispensable research tools, as they provide convenient …

The structure and mission of the EBI, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's new
outstation at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, are outlined. The EBI proposes to develop improved …

Nucleotide and protein sequences are the foundation for all bioinformatics tools and
resources. Researchers can analyze these sequences to discover genes or predict the …

The central role of sequence data in molecular biology leads to a crucial need to access the
most recent releases of the sequence databases to analyse sequences with efficient …

Abstract The GenBank Genetic Sequence Data Bank contains nearly 15000 entries for DNA
and RNA sequences that have been reported since 1967. This paper briefly describes the …

Abstract This year's Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research contains 152 papers that
include descriptions of 54 new databases and update papers on 98 databases, of which 16 …