title: Protein bioinformatics databases and resources.
abstract: In the past decades, a variety of publicly available data repositories and resources have been developed to support protein related information management, data-driven hypothesis generation and biological knowledge discovery. However, there is also an increasing confusion for the researchers who are trying to quickly find the appropriate resources to help them solve their problems. In this chapter, we present a comprehensive review (with categorization and description) of major protein bioinformatics databases and resources that are relevant to comparative proteomics research. We conclude the chapter by discussing the challenges and opportunities for developing new protein bioinformatics databases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA. chenc@cis.udel.edu
authors.forename: Chuming
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Hongzhan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Cathy H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030562:Databases, Protein; D040901:Proteomics