Biological Databases & Ontologies

The major public repositories a computational biologist works against daily — NCBI/GenBank, Ensembl, UniProt, and Gene Ontology — what each holds and how they cross-reference each other.

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Computational Biologist

Scope: Current NCBI E-utilities and data policies; Ensembl release 116; UniProt, RCSB PDB, Gene Ontology, OBO Foundry, Sequence Ontology, HGNC, Identifiers.org and OLS guidance reviewed 2026-09-04.