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Table 13 Main data sources used by the orphan survey

From: A survey of orphan enzyme activities

Database name

Content

Source

Accessed via...

TrEMBL [32]

Comprehensive protein and DNA sequence data

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Web

Comprehensive Microbial Repository (CMR [33])

Extensive genomic data for microbial species

The Institute for Genomic Research

BioWarehouse

BioCyc databases

Collection of pathway/genome databases primarily concerned with microbial species

Bioinformatics Research Group, SRI International

BioWarehouse

IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature [34]

Description of enzymes that have been assigned an EC number by the Enzyme Commission

Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Web and BioWarehouse

ENZYME [35]

Repository of information relative to the nomenclature of enzymes

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Web and BioWarehouse

NCBI Taxonomy [36]

Taxonomy database

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Web and BioWarehouse

PubMed

Literature database

National Library of Medicine

Web