Biological Database

A Biological Database is a Database of biological entities and/or biological processes.

• AKA:
  • It can be a Curated Database.
  • It can be managed by an Organization.
  • It can range from being an Open Database to a Private Database, depending on its Terms of Use.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • KEGG Database.
  • Uniprot Database.
    • Swiss-Prot Database.
  • NCBI Database.
    • NCBI Taxonomy Database.
  • Gene Ontology.
  • PSORTdb.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Chemical Database.
  • a Product Database.
  • a Customer Database.
• See: Bioinformatics.

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