Biological Databases Diagram

Question

[fire_water]

Hello,

I have a couple of questions about the public biological databases that are available.

1. I am trying to understand the bioDBnet network diagram located here. So, for example, let's say I have a GenBank Nucleotide Accession number AB000095. Looking at the bioDBnet diagram, I see a line drawn from GenBank Nucleotide Accession to Ensembl Gene ID. Does that mean, given an accession number, I can get its gene ID?
2. The bioDBnet diagram is nice. Do we have a similar diagram that shows which organizations own which databases? That would be a nice big picture view.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Yes you can. You could do so programmatically but if you were:

Open the NCBI record you linked above --> click "Gene" link under "Related information" --> This will open the "Gene" record --> You can see Ensembl (and other DB ID's) in Summary section --> See related.

DB's and owners

Ensembl --> EBI

GenBank/RefSeq/Unigene/TaxID/Homologene/dbSNP --> NCBI

Uniprot --> Uniprot.org (http://www.uniprot.org/)

KEGG --> http://www.genome.jp/kegg/

Biocarta --> http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Pathways/BioCarta_Pathways

Drugbank --> http://www.drugbank.ca/

GO --> http://geneontology.org/