Bioinformatics: OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) Overview

Bioinformatics: OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) Overview

While bioinformatics is a key in analyzing genes, proteins, genomes, mutations...etc, researchers use these information to understand genetic diseases especially in human, this is where bioinformatics is playing a major role in finding, analyzing, and treating these genetic disorders and for that NCBI has developed OMIM and made it available to public.

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) is a database which contains a catalog for human genes and genetic disorders, the database was developed by NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) and it is hosted on their server.

OMIM contains information about all known genetic disorders and it links to other resources like MEDLINE (Citations and abstracts) and even links to other NCBI databases entries that are responsible for certain diseases.

OMIM has three ways to search for genetic disorders or related information:

1- Through a normal search: by typing a keyword like in the case of most databases.

2- By using the Gene map: where you can browse a table of genes organized by cytogenetic map location.

3- By using the Morbid map: which is a table of all alphabetically listed genetic disorders featured in OMIM.

To access OMIM click HERE.

Any questions you're welcome.