The BioInformer nr. 1, 1997 -- DBCAT database annual update




	A publication of EMBL - Outstation Hinxton, The European Bioinformatics Institute


		DBCAT annual update This week, INFOBIOGEN announced the annual update of the "DBCAT", the public catalog of the data banks for the genetics and molecular biology. How many databases are available in particular field on the Internet? Five hundred, a thousand, or more? It is hard to tell. Although not exhaustive yet, DBCAT tries to catalog as many of these databases as possible. Currently, the DBCAT contains : more than 300 original descriptions, from at least 23 countries more than 43 organisms 40 databanks about human 24 databanks about mutations 7 databanks about Drosophila 8 databanks about Escherichia Coli 17 databanks about Chromosomes 20 different genomes (organelle, Saccharomyces, Arabidopsis, rat, mouse, rice, human, etc.) 46% of the databases have already been checked by the authors/curators. The database is freely accessible through a web interface. To help this catalog to grow, please send information about your favourite database (if it is not in DBCAT yet) to the database managers. Announced by: Claude Discala Resources and further information: DBCAT public catalog of genetic/biological databases Web interface to DBCAT http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/dbcat/ Add/update form http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/dbcat/file/dbcat_for m.html Anonymous FTP ftp.infobiogen.fr/pub/db/dbcat/ Contacts: Claude Discala, e-mail: Claude.Discala@infobiogen.fr Marion Ninnin, e-mail: Marion.Ninnin@infobiogen.fr External sites are not endorsed by EMBL-EBI

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