title: Biological databases for human research.
abstract: The completion of the Human Genome Project lays a foundation for systematically studying the human genome from evolutionary history to precision medicine against diseases. With the explosive growth of biological data, there is an increasing number of biological databases that have been developed in aid of human-related research. Here we present a collection of human-related biological databases and provide a mini-review by classifying them into different categories according to their data types. As human-related databases continue to grow not only in count but also in volume, challenges are ahead in big data storage, processing, exchange and curation.
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: junyu@big.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: zhangzhang@big.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015894:Genome, Human; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet
keywords: Big data; Curation; Database; Database category; Human