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Bioinformatics

A general overview of resources for bioinformatics. The content is intended for students in the sciences and provides both introductory and some advanced resources.

Bibliographic Databases

A search of Purdue Libraries can be useful for many items including books, e-books and dissertations.  If you are searching for primary research articles, you should search the relevant literature databases directly.  The major databases are listed below.  For questions about off campus access or Inter Library Loan, see the boxes in the left panel.  This information will help you to access the articles that you want through Purdue Libraries.  If you already know the DOI or PubMed ID for an article that you need, you can directly search our catalog, DOI or PMID Search

When you perform you search for bioinformatics, you should consider the Medical Subject Heading for Computational Biology.  This can be particularly useful when search PubMed.  For Web of Science, the general category for Bioinformatics is Mathematical & Computational Biology.  

Here is a short list of other search terms that you could use.  

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Genome analysis
  • Genomics
  • Metabolomics data analysis
  • Next generation sequencing
  • Proteomics data analysis
  • Sequence analysis
  • Systems Biology