The GeneCards database offers concise information about human genes (and their mouse homologs), with a focus on their cellular functions and medical aspects. GeneCards was developed over the last 10 years by a world-leading bioinformatics team at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. www.genecards.org
OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
OMIM, the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information and references. It also contains copious links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI and elsewhere. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=omim
Tree of Life, web project
The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. www.tolweb.org
Orpha.net : le portail des maladies rares et des médicaments orphelins
L’objectif d’Orphanet est de fournir de l’information sur les maladies rares aux professionnels de santé, aux malades et à leur entourage, afin d’améliorer le diagnostic, le traitement et la prise en charge de ces maladies. L’information d’Orphanet n’est pas destinée à remplacer le recours à un professionnel de santé. www.orpha.net
KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
A grand challenge in the post-genomic era is a complete computer representation of the cell, the organism, and the biosphere, which will enable computational prediction of higher-level complexity of cellular processes and organism behaviors from genomic and molecular information. Towards this end we have been developing a bioinformatics resource named KEGG as part of the research projects of the Kanehisa Laboratories in the Bioinformatics Center of Kyoto University and the Human Genome Center of the University of Tokyo. www.genome.ad.jp/kegg
