Affiliations: EMBL Outstation – European Bioinformatics Institute,
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. E-mail: {mpr,
pkersey, apweiler}@ebi.ac.uk
Note: [] Corresponding author
Abstract: Integr8 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/integr8/) is providing an integration
layer for the exploitation of genomic and proteomic data by drawing on
databases maintained at major bioinformatics centres in Europe. Main aims are
to store the relationships of biological entities to each other and to entries
in other databases, to provide a framework that allows for new kinds of data to
be integrated, and to offer an entity-centric view of complete genomes and
proteomes. Basic tools for data integration comprise the Proteome Analysis
database, the International Protein Index (IPI), the Universal Protein sequence
archive (UniParc) and the Genome Reviews. Entry points for the Integr8 portal
depend on the users entity of interest: from browsing the taxonomy or with a
predetermined species of interest, the species page can be used, and a simple
search page leads to different applications when looking for certain protein
sequences or genes. Customisable statistics data are available from the BioMart
application, and pre-prepared data can be downloaded from the FTP site.
