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A Summary of Genomic Databases: Overview <strong>and</strong> Discussion 41<br />

<strong>Bio</strong>logical database<br />

categories<br />

Macromolecular Databases<br />

Genomic Databases<br />

Experiment databases<br />

Immunological databases<br />

Gene databases<br />

Transcript databases<br />

Pathway databases<br />

Protein databases<br />

Polymorphism <strong>and</strong> mutation databases<br />

Meta Database (database of database)<br />

Literature databases<br />

Other databases<br />

DNA databases<br />

RNA databases<br />

Protein sequence databases<br />

Protein structure databases<br />

Protein motif <strong>and</strong> domine databases<br />

Human genome databases<br />

Model organism databases<br />

Other organism databases<br />

Organelle databases<br />

Virus genome databases<br />

Microarray databases<br />

2D PAGE databases<br />

Other experiments databases<br />

Fig. 1. <strong>Bio</strong>logical database classification<br />

2 Genomic Databases Analysis<br />

This section focuses on genomic databases, that represent one among<br />

the most important biological database categories. Differently from gene<br />

databases, containing only coding DNA sequences, genomic databases contain<br />

also non coding intergenic sequences.<br />

In the following, we discuss a selected subset of genomic repositories (74<br />

units) <strong>and</strong> illustrate in detail their differences <strong>and</strong> common features according

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