Database of Biological Systems
Tutorial and training materials by OpenHelix
| BioSystems is a new NCBI database of biological systems. It contains a tremendous variety of information regarding groups of molecules that interact in many types of biological systems. Biological systems, or BioSystems, are broadly defined to include not only the more traditional signaling pathways, but also diseases, and more. Many associated components are described, including genes, proteins, small molecules, biomarkers and drugs. You can use this database to find all the molecules in a specific pathway, to find pathways in which a specific molecule is involved, or to find structures for associate protein components, for example. BioSystems can be searched with very simple keyword or ID queries, or you can utilize some of the many types of advanced searches offered. Because BioSystems is part of NCBI’s Entrez system of databases you have access to a tremendous variety of tools to customize your searches and results, and to find more information. The links to related data are extensive, and allow you to further your explorations by linking to the biological system’s associated literature, molecular and chemical data. | |||||
You'll learn:
- to perform basic searches and to understand your results
- to link out to a variety of related information in many different fields
- about some Entrez tools that you can use to customize your searches and results
- how to access and customize full-size pathway images
- some advanced searching techniques, including Boolean queries and batch searching
More about the resource:
BioSystems is brought to you by The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently BioSystems imports data from KEGG, and the EcoCyc subset of BioCyc. BioSystems will expand to include more data sources in the future, as more data becomes available.
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