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. 2016 Jan 4;44(D1):D27-37.
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1310. Epub 2015 Nov 28.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases

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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Members. Nucleic Acids Res. .

Abstract

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (www.isb-sib.ch) provides world-class bioinformatics databases, software tools, services and training to the international life science community in academia and industry. These solutions allow life scientists to turn the exponentially growing amount of data into knowledge. Here, we provide an overview of SIB's resources and competence areas, with a strong focus on curated databases and SIB's most popular and widely used resources. In particular, SIB's Bioinformatics resource portal ExPASy features over 150 resources, including UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, ENZYME, PROSITE, neXtProt, STRING, UniCarbKB, SugarBindDB, SwissRegulon, EPD, arrayMap, Bgee, SWISS-MODEL Repository, OMA, OrthoDB and other databases, which are briefly described in this article.

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Overview of SIB's fields of activity and resources related to big data, in the life sciences and health.
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