Table 2.

Links to External Databases in the CompView Web Site

Database[i] Specific data[ii] Search parameter[iii] Data types[iv] Home page
ATCCyesMC www.atcc.org
BioHuntyesMA www.expasy.ch/BioHunt
BLASTyesSS www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST
CEPHyesMM,C www.cephb.fr
CGM-WUSMno www.ibc.wustl.edu/cgm
CHLCyesMM lpg.nci.nih.gov/CHLC
dbESTyesMC,S,E www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbEST
dbSTSyesMC,S,E www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbSTS
GDByesMM,C gdbwww.gdb.org
GeneCardsyesMM,E,F bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards
GenexpressnoMM,E ftp.infobiogen.fr/pub/db/Genexpress
IMAGEnoC,S,E www-bio.llnl.gov/bbrp/image
INSDCyesSM,S www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/collab
KDRIyesMC,S,E www.kazusa.or.jp/cDNA
NHGRIyesMM,C www.nhgri.nih.gov
OMIMyesMM,F www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim
PAGEno www.wi.mit.edu/news/labs/page.html
RHallocno corba.ebi.ac.uk/RHdb/RHalloc
RHdbyesMM www.ebi.ac.uk/RHdb
Salk/GESTECno gestec.swmed.edu/gestec.htm
SCyesM,OM,C,S webace.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webace
SHGCyesMM,S www-shgc.stanford.edu/Mapping/rh
TIGRyesMC www.tigr.org/tdb
UCHSCno www-eri.uchsc.edu
UniGeneyesMM,C,S,E www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/UniGene
UTno www.genome.utah.edu
WICGRyesM,CM,C,S www.genome.wi.mit.edu
WTCHGno www.well.ox.ac.uk

[i] Database abbreviations: (ATCC) American Type Culture Collection; (BioHunt) Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics molecular biology internet search engine; (BLAST) Basic Local Alignment Search Tool; (CEPH) Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain; (CGM-WUSM) Center for Genetics in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine; (CHLC) Cooperative Human Linkage Center; (dbEST) Expressed Sequence Tag Database; (dbSTS) Sequence-Tagged Site Database; (GDB) Genome Database; (GeneCards) Weizmann Institute human gene catalog; (Genexpress) Généthon EST cataloguing database; (IMAGE) Integrated Molecular Analysis of Genomes and their Expression database; (INSDC) International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration; (KDRI) Kazusa DNA Research Institute; (NHGRI) National Human Genome Research Institute; (OMIM) Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man; (PAGE) Page Laboratory, Whitehead Institute, MIT; (RHalloc) RH EST allocation database; (RHdb) Radiation Hybrid Database; (Salk/GESTEC) University of Texas Southwestern Genome Science and Technology Center; (SC) Sanger Centre; (SHGC) Stanford Human Genome Center; (TIGR) The Institute for Genomic Research; (UCHSC) University of Colorado Health Science Center; (UniGene) UniGene Human Sequences Collection; (UT) University of Utah Genome Center; (WICGR) Whitehead Institute Center for Genome Research; (WTCHG) Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics.

[ii] Whether external links point directly to specific data regarding the marker in CompView being viewed.

[iii] Type of search parameter used: (O) oligonucleotide sequences; (S) DNA sequence; (M) marker name or database identifier; (C) DNA clone name.

[iv] Type of data available: (M) genomic mapping; (C) DNA clone; (S) DNA sequence; (E) transcript expression; (F) gene or locus function.