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Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these discoveries, a plethora of databases and tools are deployed, in technically complex and diverse implementations, across a spectrum of scientific disciplines. The corpus of documentation of these resources is fragmented across the Web, with much redundancy, and has lacked a common standard of information. The outcome is that scientists must often struggle to find, understand, compare and use the best resources for the task at hand.Here we present a community-driven curation effort, supported by ELIXIR-the European infrastructure for biological information-that aspires to a comprehensive and consistent registry of information about bioinformatics resources. The sustainable upkeep of this Tools and Data Services Registry is assured by a curation effort driven by and tailored to local needs, and shared amongst a network of engaged partners.As of November 2015, the registry includes 1785 resources, with depositions from 126 individual registrations including 52 institutional providers and 74 individuals. With community support, the registry can become a standard for dissemination of information about bioinformatics resources: we welcome everyone to join us in this common endeavour. The registry is freely available at https://bio.tools.
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Crowd-curated catalog of life sciences Web services with over 2400 service entries, thereby enabling users (people and programs) to discover and use these services easily. It provides a platform with several (standardized) interfaces and a suite of tools for registration of services by the community of users as well as empowers the community to extend and enhance the system. BioCatalogue provides a centralized biological web services market place which is accessible to the world as it is searchable and indexable to search engines. Additionally, it provides a quality of service standard for biological web services thereby enabling services to be classified and checked for availability, reliability and other quality measures. Primary goals: * Provide a single registration point for Web Service providers and a single search site for scientists and developers. * Providers, Expert curators and Users will provide oversight, monitor the catalog and provide high quality annotations for services. * BioCatalogue is a place where the community can find contacts and meet the experts and maintainers of these services.
View all literature mentionsA system providing resolvable persistent Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) used to identify data for the scientific community, with a current focus on the Life Sciences domain. The provision of resolvable identifiers (URLs) fits well with the Semantic Web vision, and the Linked Data initiative. It provides direct access to the identified data using one chosen physical location (or resource). If more than one physical locations providing the data are recorded in the Registry, then you can access them via the top banner or by using a profile.
View all literature mentionsAn open web-accessible resource for gene functional annotations in the plant sciences to facilitate improvement, consolidation and visualization of gene annotations across several plant species. It is based on the MapMan ontology, organized in the form of a hierarchical tree of biological concepts, which describe gene functions. Currently, genes of the model species Arabidopsis, potato, tomato, rice, and tobacco are included. The main features are (i) dynamic and interactive gene product annotation through various curation options; (ii) consolidation of gene annotations for different plant species through the integration of orthologue group information; (iii) traceability of gene ontology changes and annotations; (iv) integration of external knowledge about genes from different public resources; and (v) providing gathered information to high-throughput analysis tools via dynamically generated export files. All of the GoMapMan functionalities are openly available, with the restriction on the curation functions, which require prior registration to ensure traceability of the implemented changes.
View all literature mentionsData resource catalog that collates metadata on bioinformatics Web-based data resources including databases, ontologies, taxonomies and catalogues. An entry includes information such as resource identifier(s), name, description and URL. ''''Query'''' lines are defined for each resource that describe what type(s) of data are available, in what format, how (by what identifier) the data can be retrieved and from where (URL). DRCAT was developed to provide more extensive data integration for EMBOSS, but it has many applications beyond EMBOSS. DRCAT entries (including ''''Query'''' lines) are annotated with terms from the EDAM ontology of common bioinformatics concepts.
View all literature mentionsPortal for Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallography to produce and support an integrated suite of programs that allows researchers to determine macromolecular structures by X-ray crystallography, and other biophysical techniques. Used in the education and training of scientists in experimental structural biology for determination and analysis of protein structure.
View all literature mentionsPortal which provides access to scientific databases and software tools (i.e., resources) in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, population genetics, transcriptomics etc. It contains resources from many different SIB groups as well as external institutions.
View all literature mentionsA portal for bioinformatics analyses, including the following: alignment assembly database display genetics hmm information nucleic phylogeny protein sequence structure
View all literature mentionsComputable knowledge regarding functions of genes and gene products. GO resources include biomedical ontologies that cover molecular domains of all life forms as well as extensive compilations of gene product annotations to these ontologies that provide largely species-neutral, comprehensive statements about what gene products do. Used to standardize representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases.
View all literature mentionsAn information resource and user-driven community focused on all aspects of next-generation genomics. They hope to become the central location for next generation sequencing technology discussion and education. The site will always attempt to cater to everyone, regardless of scientific background or knowledge. The High-Throughput Sequencing Map site was conceived by James Hadfield (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge) and built by Nick Loman (University of Birmingham). The database is as only as good as you, the users.
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