Bioinformatics science is an integrated field of science that aims to collect, organize, arrange and process data extracted from biology and biotechnology laboratories. They will do it in the series of data sets called, database : but how many databases are now there in bioinformatics?

Biological databases are stores of biological information. The journal Nucleic Acids Research regularly publishes special issues on biological databases and has a list of such databases. The 2018 issue has a list of about 180 such databases and updates to previously described databases.