Looking at Whole Chromosomes and Genomes

Bioinformatics Tools

• Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequence Analysis Tools (PowerPoint 2.3Mb Jul 21 08)
  
• GeneScan Predicts protein sequence, location of exons, start and stop codons from a nucleotide sequence.
• ScanProsite Identifies potential functional domains in an amino acid sequence.
• BLAST Searches databases for nucleotide or amino acid sequences similar to your own.
• GenBank Database of all publicly available DNA sequences.
  
• More bioinformatics links: http://bioinformatics.ca/links_directory/
  

NCBI Resources

• Model of NCBI Entrez Databases
  
• Intro to NCBI Mapviewer (Microsoft Word 171kB Jul18 08)
• Intro to NCBI Entrez SNP (Microsoft Word 207kB Jul18 08)
• Intro to NCBI OMIM (Microsoft Word 176kB Jul18 08)
• Intro to NCBI COGs (Microsoft Word 643kB Jul18 08)
• Intro to NCBI Entrez Geo (Microsoft Word 921kB Jul18 08)
• NCBI Science Primer