BioMine-DB

BioMine-DB catalogs biomineralization proteins and associated sequence and annotation data to support research on biomineral formation, including bone, teeth, and coral reef biominerals, and their links to bone-related disorders.

Key Features:

• Centralized repository: Curates biomineralization-related protein entries with sequence and annotation data.
• Organism and mineral scope: Covers biomineralization across metazoans, including tissues such as bone and teeth and ecosystems such as coral reefs, and records inorganic mineral and organic (protein) components.
• Data formats: Provides downloadable SQL dumps and FASTA files for bioinformatics analyses.
• Disease associations: Includes annotations linking biomineralization proteins to bone-related disorders.

Scientific Applications:

• Fundamental biomineralization research: Supports studies of molecular mechanisms of biomineral formation in metazoans.
• Biomedical research: Enables exploration of potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers for bone-related diseases.

Methodology:

Data are provided as curated protein entries and distributed as downloadable SQL dumps and FASTA files.