Category talk:Biological databases

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This category was nominated for deletion on 15 October 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This Category:Bioinformatics databases should be renamed to Biological database(s). These are data collections from biologists and for biologists, not from/for bioinformaticians. The primary article for this category is Biological database. Dongilbert 04:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gene Banks is not a Bioinformatics database subcategory

Gene Banks are biological materials repositories, e.g. for plant seeds. These are not Bioinformatics databases, though of course they use computers and store data on their seeds.

--Dongilbert (talk) 23:30, 16 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just made a category for things like gene banks. I named the category Biorepositories. I put Biologicial databases as a member of it, because even though the word is "biorepository" I think the intent is "biological information repository", and the animals/plants/specimens are just the media for storing that information. In the same way, the database is storing the information. I feel like the concept of biological databases and biorepositories ought to be linked somehow, and it seemed better to put databases into the biorepository category than vice-versa. Blue Rasberry (talk) 03:25, 24 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]