What is Bioinformatik Harvester?
What is it?
Bioinformatik Harvester
(BH) is a metasearch engine that searches a large collection of bio-oriented data sources and assembles the individual Web pages into one long page that can be scanned easily and quickly.
Although
Bioinformatik Harvester does not digest the
information in the way other services do (e.g.,
iHOP), it is a surprisingly effective way to convey a large amount of information about a gene or protein in a meaningful way.
What is it for?
The composite Web page generated by BH is effective in enabling a quick understanding of what the literature is saying about genes and proteins. See this
example for MAP1S Microtubule-associated protein 1S, identified by a query for "cancer" and "RNAi" in humans.
What is in it?
BH supports queries focused on Homo sapiens as well as the most of the principal model organisms: mouse, rat, zebrafish, arabidopsis and drosophila. It searches more than 170M Web pages, covering most of the major biological databases, including:
- 4DXp
- AceView
- BLAST
- Biocompare
- CDART
-
Conserved Domain Database (CDD)
-
Ensembl
- Entrez
- FishMap
- Galaxy
- UCSC GenomeBrowser
- gfp-cDNA
- Google Scholar
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GoPubMed
- H-Inv
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HomoloGene
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iHOP
- Institute for Protein Information (IPI)
- MapView
-
Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
- MINT
- Mitocheck
- OMIM
- PolyMeta
- PSORT II
- RGD
- SMART
- SOSUI SOURCE
- STRING
- TAIR
- Unigene
- UniprotKB
- Wikipedia
- WikiProtein
Unique Characteristics
This is one of the most comprehensive biological metasearch engine when it comes to genes, genomes and proteins. Compare it with:
Source
Lane Librarian
Record created 10/30/2008.
ypouliot, September 21, 2009