Editing Biological database (section)

== ''Nucleic Acids Research'' Database Issue ==
An important resource for finding biological databases is a special yearly issue of the journal ''[[Nucleic Acids Research]]'' (NAR). The Database Issue of NAR is freely available, and categorizes many of the public biological databases. A companion database to the issue called the Online Molecular Biology Database Collection lists 1,380 online databases.<ref name="pmid22144685">{{cite journal |author=Galperin MY|author2=Fernández-Suárez XM |title=The 2012 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and the online Molecular Biology Database Collection |journal=Nucleic Acids Res. |volume=40 |issue=Database issue |pages=D1–8 |date=January 2012 |pmid=22144685 |pmc=3245068 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkr1196 }}</ref> Other collections of databases exist such as MetaBase and the Bioinformatics Links Collection.<ref name="pmid22139927">{{cite journal |author=Bolser DM|author2=Chibon PY|author3=Palopoli N|title=MetaBase--the wiki-database of biological databases |journal=Nucleic Acids Res. |volume=40 |issue=Database issue |pages=D1250–4 |date=January 2012 |pmid=22139927 |pmc=3245051 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkr1099 |display-authors=etal}}</ref><ref name="pmid21715385">{{cite journal |author=Brazas MD|author2=Yim DS|author3=Yamada JT|author4=Ouellette BF |title=The 2011 Bioinformatics Links Directory update: more resources, tools and databases and features to empower the bioinformatics community |journal=Nucleic Acids Res. |volume=39 |issue=Web Server issue |pages=W3–7 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21715385 |pmc=3125814 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkr514 }}</ref>