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Biobar - A toolbar for browsing biological data and databases.

The biobar project is a bioinformatics power-browsing toolbar for Mozilla-based browsers including Firefox/Flock/Mozilla/Netscape and Seamonkey. This toolbar provides access to major biological data resources. The primary advantage of this tool is that it allows a biologist to browse and retrieve data from Genomic, Proteomic, Functional, Literature, Taxonomic, Structural, Plant and Animal-specific databases. In addition to the browsing features, biobar also provides links to important bioinformatics sites and services including services at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ). The tool also provides links to major data deposition sites for nucleotide, protein and 3D-structure data. Finally, the menu also contains links to many Sequence, Structure alignment and analysis tools.

The latest release of Biobar is (Version 1.5.3)(Firefox/Flock) (Install).

Enabled searching PRIDE database.

Fixed broken searches to Flybase.

Added additional search options to Intact

Added additional search options to Gramene.

Added additional search options to Uniprot.

Updated search options for EBI.

Removed non-functional databases (GBIF, BIOME and GLOVAR).

Context Menu (right click on chosen text) cleaned up.

Tooltiptexts Removed from search database dropdown.

If you have downloaded,used and liked biobar, please spread the word by adding this icon to your webpage using the code below.

<a href="http://biobar.mozdev.org"><img border="0" src="http://biobar.mozdev.org/biobar_icon.jpg" />

New in Version 1.5.2 (Firefox/Flock Only).

Correction to broken searches in Ensembl

Correction to broken searches in RCSB PDB

Right click menu on text highlight to search literature resources

New in Version 1.4 (Firefox Only)

Added SCIRUS

Added Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Fixed broken links, corrected BioCyc database update problem

New in Version 1.3:

Search Groups of Data (sequences, function, taxonomy)

Add/Save/Edit Custom Links on toolbar menu

Open searches in new tab/existing tab

BioCyc species read in from remote XML file for dynamic updates

Biobar code rewritten from scratch to move to a manageable XML based format.

Add/Replace own search databases by simple edits of XML files. See Customize