Biobar - A toolbar for browsing biological data and databases.

The biobar project is a bioinformatics power-browsing toolbar for Firefox that provides access to major biological data resources from the comfort of your browser menus.

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. The latest release of biobar provides access to over 41 biological data collections.

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. A context menu allows a quick literature search for highlighted terms on any website (see below)

You may also be interested in simple search plugins for IE7/8, Google Chrome or Firefox to query the EBI EB-eye service or the PDBe. Get these here:

PDBe: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=pdbe

EBI EB-eye: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=eb-eye