The UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway is a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute resource for anyone interested in signal transduction. This Gateway represents a unique collaboration between the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Nature Publishing Group and is designed to facilitate navigation of the complex world of research into cellular signaling. Information and data presented here are freely available to all. It is powered by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). At the heart of this collaboration is the Molecule Pages, a relational database of all significant published qualitative and quantitative information on cell signaling proteins. This database will also allow entirely new insights to be gleaned through intelligent data mining: the Molecule Pages database was developed with the specific aim of allowing interactions, and indeed whole pathways, to be modeled. Our goal is to filter the data to present only validated information. Thus, invited experts will enter much of the data and every Molecule Page will be comprehensively peer reviewed by Nature. We regard a Molecule Page as a new full-fledged form of publication. ... [Information of the supplier]
MfunGD provides a resource for annotated mouse proteins and their occurence in protein networks. Protein function annotation is performed using the Functional Catalogue (FunCat) annotation scheme, which is a hierarchically structured classification system (Ruepp et al., NAR, 2004). To provide up-to-date similarity search results and InterPro domain analyses, the protein entries are interconnected with the SIMAP database (Rattei et al., NAR, 2006). The gene models are based on the RefSeq mouse cDNAs (Pruitt et al., NAR, 2007) The work of our group is focussed on the annotation of biological systems. Therefore, results from the Mammalian Protein-Protein Interaction Database ( MPPI, (Pagel et al., Bioinformatics, 2005 )) and the Comprehensive Resource of Mammalian Protein Complexes (CORUM, (Ruepp et al., NAR, 2007)) are linked to the MfunGD dataset. Links to external resources are also provided (e.g. Refseq, Uniprot, UCSC Genome Browser). MfunGD is implemented in GenRE, a J2EE based component oriented multi-tier architecture (Mewes et al., NAR, 2006). ... [Information of the supplier]
The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) captures and presents information relating to experimental workflows that are based around nucleotide sequencing. A typical workflow includes the isolation and preparation of material for sequencing, a run of a sequencing machine in which sequencing data are produced and a subsequent bioinformatic analysis pipeline. ENA records this information in a data model that covers input information (sample, experimental setup, machine configuration), output machine data (sequence traces, reads and quality scores) and interpreted information (assembly, mapping, functional annotation). Data arrive at ENA from a variety of sources. These include submissions of raw data, assembled sequences and annotation from small-scale sequencing efforts, data provision from the major European sequencing centres and routine and comprehensive exchange with our partners in the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC). ENA is made up of a number of distinct databases that includes EMBL-Bank, the newly established Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and the Trace Archive each with their own data formats and standards. ... [Information of the supplier]
The principal aims of the EGF are: a) to run the European School of Genetic Medicine, promoting the advanced scientific and professional training of young European Geneticists, with particular attention to the applications in the field of preventive medicine, b) to promote public education about genetics discoveries and c) to organize conferences, courses, international prizes and initiatives aimed at bringing together the scientific and humanistic disciplines. ... [Information of the supplier]
DNAtraffic database is dedicated to be an unique comprehensive and richly annotated database of genome dynamics during the cell life. DNAtraffic contains extensive data on the nomenclature, ontology, structure and function of proteins related to control of the DNA integrity mechanisms such as chromatin remodeling, DNA repair and damage response pathways from eight model organisms commonly used in the DNA-related study: Homo sapiens (human), Mus musculus (mouse), Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode), Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast), Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast), Escherichia coli K-12, Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress) DNAtraffic contains comprehensive information on diseases related to the assembled human proteins. Database is richly annotated in the systemic information on the nomenclature, chemistry and structure of the DNA damage and drugs targeting nucleic acids and/or proteins involved in the maintenance of genome stability. One of the DNAtraffic database aim is to create the first platform of the combinatorial complexity of DNA metabolism pathway analysis. Database includes illustrations of pathway, damage, protein and drug. Since DNAtraffic is designed to cover a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines it has to be extensively linked to numerous external data sources. Database represents the result of the manual annotation work aimed at making the DNAtraffic database much more useful for a wide range of systems biology applications. DNAtraffic database is freely available and can be queried by the name of DNA network process, DNA damage, protein, disease, and drug. ... [Information of the supplier]
Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from an encyclopedia of life that now contains 278,487 species. [Information of the supplier]
The World Conservation Union is the world's largest and most important conservation network. The Union brings together 82 States, 111 government agencies, more than 800 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. The World Conservation Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1000 staff located in 62 countries. ... [Information of the supplier]
Signed by 150 government leaders at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the Convention on Biological Diversity is dedicated to promoting sustainable development. Conceived as a practical tool for translating the principles of Agenda 21 into reality, the Convention recognizes that biological diversity is about more than plants, animals and micro organisms and their ecosystems - it is about people and our need for food security, medicines, fresh air and water, shelter, and a clean and healthy environment in which to live. ... [Information of the supplier]
NatureServe is a non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems. [Information of the supplier]
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is one of the largest and most experienced nature protection organisations in the world and is active in more than 100 countries. It is supported, worldwide, by more than five million sponsors. In the global network of WWF, 59 national sections, programme offices, and partner organisations co-operate. In 2005, about 4400 co-workers throughout the world, carried out 2000 projects for the conservation of biological diversity. For this, WWF invested altogether about 362 million Euros. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
