The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) belongs to the ERBB family of tyrosine kinase
receptors. EGFR signaling cascade is a key regulator in cell proliferation, differentiation …

Functional nucleic acids (FNAs), including DNA aptamers and DNAzymes, are finding
increasing use as molecular recognition elements for point-of-care (POC) assays and …

Online gene annotation resources are indispensable for analysis of genomics data.
However, the landscape of these online resources is highly fragmented, and scientists often …

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 …

New knowledge is produced at a continuously increasing speed, and the list of papers,
databases and other knowledge sources that a researcher in the life sciences needs to cope …

An increasing number of studies on allergenic molecules have been published during the
past 20 years, and the number of proteins reported as allergens is close to 1500 (http://www …

The current issue of Nucleic Acids Research includes descriptions of 58 new and 73
updated data resources. The accompanying online Database Collection, available at …

Biomedical informatics involves a core set of methodologies that can provide a foundation
for crossing the" translational barriers" associated with translational medicine. To this end …

Biological databases play a central role in bioinformatics. They offer scientists the
opportunity to access a wide variety of biologically relevant data, including the genomic …

To facilitate sharing of Omics data, many groups of scientists have been working to establish
the relevant data standards. The main components of data sharing standards are …