Data Mining the Zebrafish Genome

Publisher Summary This chapter provides the users a guide to mining zebrafish data at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), with suggestions of ways to search for publications, gene information, homology, sequence, map, structure, or expression data and methods for navigating among the different types of available data and resources. National center for biotechnology information (NCBI) provides a queryable interface that enables navigation between interconnected data types and between information for multiple genomes. NCBI brings together the power of large-scale computational analyses and an integrated system of data retrieval with detailed information on maps, sequence, expression, structure, genomes, genes, diseases, phenotypes, publications, protein domains, and structures. NCBI provides connections between these disparate types of data by computation and curation. ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database, provides the central location for the curation and integration of zebrafish genetic, genomic, and phenotypic data and for their subsequent integration with other model organism databases. The chapter also provides a set of questions involving genome, gene, map, homology, and expression data.