Appendix D: EMBL Databases and Tools: An Overview
S Jain1, S Panwar2 and A Kumar3
1 Department of Applied Sciences & Humanities, Jai Parkash Mukand Lal Innovative Engineering and Technology Institute, Haryana, India
2 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Nutrition Biology, Central University of Haryana, Haryana, India
INTRODUCTION
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a constituent body of EMBL and is situated at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge (UK). It provides all sorts of molecular data, as well as bioinformatics databases, software and tools, at no cost. It has all kinds of life sciences information, and helps in basic and advanced research. The information in the databases and tools described in this chapter is extracted from the EMBL‐guide and related sites. Therefore, in several instances, the information given may be verbatim.
THE EMBL DATABASES
Information on each of the databases has been collected from EMBL. The databases available via dbfetch are listed in Table 1. An overview of each database is also provided, which includes a short description and link to the databases.
TABLE 1 Features and links of various EMBL databases.
| S.N. | Databases | Features | Links |
| 1. | EDAM | EMBRACE Data and Methods (EDAM) Ontology. | http://edamontology.sourceforge.net/ |
| 2. | ENA Coding | European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) Coding is a database of nucleotide sequences of the CDS (coding ... |
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