Important Home Pages [Top] European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_docs/embl_db/ebi/topembl.html Cambridge, UK. UK Human Genome Mapping Project - Resource Center (HGMP-RC) http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/ SeqNet: UK Node of European Molecular Biology Network (EMBNet) http://www.seqnet.dl.ac.uk/ GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Search/index.html GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) of The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at The National Institutes for Health (NIH) campus, USA. DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ) http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp Genome Sequence DataBase (GSDB) http://seqsim.ncgr.org/ The National Center for Genome Resources, Genome Sequence Database. The server is a supercomputer with genomic algorithm accelleration. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/searchomim.html Database of human genes and their disorders, with textual information, images and references. Links to Entrez and MedLine. European Drosophila Genome Project http://edgp.ebi.ac.uk/ The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) http://www.tigr.org/ The Sanger Centre http://www.sanger.ac.uk/ Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Expasy) http://www.expasy.ch/ GenomeNet (Japan) http://www.genome.ad.jp/ Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS) http://morgan.angis.su.oz.au Bioinformatics and Biology Resources on the Internet http://aeiveos.wa.com/biology/index.html An excellent site, well worth a visit! List of other Genome Sites http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/GenomeWeb/ List of other genome web sites. Concise and clearly presented. Brunel University Online Teaching Programme http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/bl/project/front.htm Manuals [Top] EMBL http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_docs/embl_db/usrman/usrman.html GenBank ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/gbrel.txt SRS http://www.sanger.ac.uk/srs/srsman.html Other Guides and Tutorials [Top] BioComputing Hypertext Coursebook http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/ A very thorough source of learning. Especially good for readers who want to get to grips with the "nuts and bolts" of bioinformatics. Molecular Genetic Information [Top] Gene Cards (*) http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards/ A very useful site providing comprehensive information and links. Direct links to GenBank, SWISS-PROT and MedLine. Includes synonyms, similar genes in other organisms, gene products and details about disorders. Gene Cards: Diseases with a Genetic Association (*) http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards-bin/listdiseasecards http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards/cards-bin/listdiseasecards View the complete (comprehensive!) list, or search for disease related genes by chromosome. Life Science Dictionary http://biotech.chem.indiana.edu/pages/dictionary.html A dictionary. Genomic Sequence Databases [Top] These are the four primary sequence databases. They exchange sequence information daily. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi_docs/embl_db/ebi/topembl.html Cambridge, UK. GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Search/index.html GenBank at the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) of The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at The National Institutes for Health (NIH) campus, USA. DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ) http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp Genome Sequence DataBase (GSDB) http://seqsim.ncgr.org/ The National Center for Genome Resources, Genome Sequence Database. The server is a supercomputer with genomic algorithm accelleration. Other Genomic Databases and Utilities [Top] These are often specialised databases. The International Immunogenetics Database (IMGT) http://imgt.cnusc.fr:8104 Contains expertly annotated sequences and alignment tables for Ig, TCR and MHC sequences. Human Genome Map Database (HuGeMap) http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/Hugemap Genetic and physical maps of the human genome. Connected with the gene radiation hybrid mapping database RHdb. UTR Home Page http://bigarea.area.ba.cnr.it:8000/EmbIT/UTRHome/ Internet resources for sequence analysis of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Includes specialised UTR databases and tools for analyses of UTR regions. Sequence Search & Retrieval [Top] Integrated Database Retrieval Systems Entrez http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/ Start here for pretty much anything! Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) http://www.seqnet.dl.ac.uk/srs/srsc The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), Human Gene Index (HGI) Sequence Search 4-1-2-DDPDE/USA http://www.tigr.org/tdb/hgi/searching/hgi_seq_search.html Search for nucleotides and peptides. TIGR HGI Reports 3-1-2-DDcW/USA http://www.tigr.org/tdb/hgi/hgi_info.html Retrieve sequences identified by EST ID, GenBank number etc. TIGR HGI Gene Expression Data 4-2-1-DDcW/USA http://www.tigr.org/tdb/hgi/searching/hgi_xpress_search.html Search for tissue specific transcripts e.g. "lung". cDNA libraries can also be searched. TIGR HGI Name Search 5-1-2-DDW/USA http://www.tigr.org/tdb/hgi/searching/hgi_name_search.html Search for a sequence by the name of a gene product e.g. insulin. Genome Database (GDB) http://hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/gdb or http://gdbwww.gdb.org/ Funding for this project has been withdrawn. This valuable database will remain online, but it should be noted that no new entries will be recorded after 31st July 1998. GENATLAS (*) 5-5-2-DUWI/France http://bisance.citi2.fr/GENATLAS/ A comprehensive, easy to use site. Search gene, marker or phenotype or linkage databases. Useful, relevant links provided in the results. The user can also locate the desired gene from a graphical clickable map of disease related or other mapped genes on a chromosome. Gene Cards (*) http://bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il/cards/ A very useful site providing comprehensive information and links. Direct links to GenBank, SWISS-PROT and MedLine. Includes synonyms, similar genes in other organisms, gene products and details about disorders. Sequence Identification (BLAST, FASTA etc.) [Top] The Sanger Centre Database Search Services 5-2-5-DDPDFWE/UK -Clean, simple design. http://www.sanger.ac.uk/DataSearch/ BLAST and WU-BLAST 2.0 searches which can be refined to finished and/or unfinished genomic sequences. BLAST 2 Similarity Search (EMBNet) 5-3-2-PUWE/Switzerland http://www.ch.embnet.org/software/frameBLAST.html WU-BLAST 2.0 similarity searches. BLAST2 Search with Post-processing (EMBL) 4-3-2-PUW/Germany http://dove.embl-heidelberg.de/Blast2/ WU-BLAST 2.0 search with post-processing. FASTA 3 (EMBL) http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/fasta3/ FASTA 3 similarity search. FASTA http://www2.igh.cnrs.fr/bin/fasta-guess.cgi FASTA similarity search and a clean, basic and simple interface. Blitz http://www.ebi.ac.uk/searches/blitz.html Beauty http://dot.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu:9331/seq-search/protein-search.html Beauty is an enhanced BLAST search, returning output which predicts the function of the protein being tested. Sequence Alignment [Top] Analysis and Annotation Tool for Finding Genes in Genomic Sequences 5-3-2-DcDPDFWE/USA http://genome.cs.mtu.edu/aat.html Identifies genes in a DNA sequence by comparing it to cDNA and protein sequence databases (including those at HGI, TIGR, dbEST, Swiss-Prot and nr). Pairwise Sequence Alignment 3-4-2-DcUPUFWE/USA http://genome.cs.mtu.edu/align/align.html Computes the global alignment between two sequences. Compare DNA with DNA, cDNA or protein. For DNA and cDNA, settings (gap open penalty, gap extension etc.) can be defined. Multiple Sequence Alignemnt with MAP 4-3-2-DcUPUFWE/USA http://genome.cs.mtu.edu/map/map.html Calculates the global alignment of DNA or protein sequences using an algorithm which computes the best overlapping alignment without penalising terminal gaps. Long internal gaps in short sequences are not penalised. Network Protein Sequence Analysis 5-4-1-PUW/France http://pbil.ibcp.fr/NPSA/npsa_clustalw.html ClustalW multiple sequence alignment. ALIGN 5-1-1-DUPUWE/France http://www2.igh.cnrs.fr/bin/align-guess.cgi or http://genome.eerie.fr/fasta/align-query.html Applies the BLOSUM50 matrix to deduce the optimal alignment between two sequences. Multiple Sequence Alignment with Hierarchial Clustering 5-5-3-PUW/France http://www.toulouse.inra.fr/multalin.html Sequence alignment with a colour output where differing or similar amino acids in the alignment can be highlighted. Colour INteractive Editor for Multiple Alignments (CINEMA) http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/dbbrowser/CINEMA2.1/ A comprehensive and popular site. Allows the user to visualise and manipulate aligned protein sequences. Makes use of Java. I recommend you access this site from a fast workstation! VSNS BioComputing Division Multiple Alignment Resource Page http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/MulAli/ An excellent, comprehensive resource for multiple sequence alignment, software and tutorials. cDNA Databases [Top] TIGR Human cDNA Mapping Project 5-1-1-DcW/USA http://www.tigr.org/tdb/hummap/hummap.html Search by STS to retrieve individual STS reports, by GenBank, THC or HC number for transcripts with mapped STS's or by Chromosome number to see a list of all of the transcripts mapped to date, for example, on chromosome 16. Via OMIM You can search for a 'disease gene' at OMIM. Click the "DNA" button in the results display and follow the link to the mRNA sequence. Note the absence of U (uracil): this sequence is referred to in GenBank reports as mRNA, but the sequence is a cDNA sequence. http://www.nih.gov Mutation Databases [Top] Human Gene Mutation Database 4-2-2-DUW/UK http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/search/mg/allgenes? Enter a GDB accension number, disease name, gene name or symbol to retrieve well presented information about the different mutation types, information and links. Protein Mutation Database Check this site! http://www.genome.ad.jp/htbin/bfind_pmd COMMENTS MITOMAP Check this site! http://infinity.gen.emory.edu/mitomap.html Mitochondrial DNA database. Breast Cancer Mutation Database Check this site! http://www.nchgr.nih.gov/Intramural-research/lab_transfer/bic/ COMMENTS New Sequence Submission [Top] EMBL http://www.ebi.ac.uk/subs/emblsubs.html BankIt (GenBank) http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Open Reading Frame (ORF) Finder [Top] ORF Finder http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gorf/gorf.html Finds likely open reading frames in a sequence. Sequence Translation [Top] Nucleotide to Protein (Expasy) 5-2-1-DUW/Switzerland http://www.expasy.ch/www/dna.html Translates a nucleotide sequence (DNA/RNA) into a protein sequence (amino acids). Nucleotide to Protein (EMBL) 5-4-1-DUW/UK http://www.ebi.ac.uk/contrib/tommaso/translate.html Translates a nucleotide sequence into a protein sequence. Forward and Reverse Translation 5-5-2-DUPUFWE/UK http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Wise2/genewiseform.shtml Translate a protein sequence into a genomic DNA sequence, and vice versa. This is a WWW interface to the pgwise software application. Those who are proficient with this package may like to take advantage of it's extra capabilities by adding execution critera. Protein and cDNA Translation 5-4-2-DcUPU/UK http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Wise2/protein2cdna.shtml Translate a protein sequence into a cDNA sequence, and vice versa. Protein Sequence Databases [Top] Translated EMBL (TrEMBL) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/trembl Database of all the protein coding regions stored in the EMBL database. Comprehensive, but (generally) at the cost of poor annotation. SWISS-PROT http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/sprot-top.html A database of protein sequences, translated from the EMBL genomic database. Protein sequences have been checked and annotated. PIR http://www_nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir/ Four databases: PIR1 is the most comprehensive with entries classified and annotated. PIR4 is the least comprehensive, with unencoded or untranslated entries. Motif Databases [Top] Pratt Search (EMBL) 4-4-2-PU http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/pratt/ Interactively identifies conserved patterns from a series of user-entered unaligned protein sequences. PROSITE (via EBI) http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/ppsearch/ Pattern search to identify conserved functional amino acid motifs. Scans a sequence against PROSITE (the primary motif database) with a graphical output. PROSITE http://expasy.hcuge.ch/sprot/prosite.html The primary motif database. Take care! Motifs are often short, and a large number of false positives should be expected! Options are available to exclude those which most commonly lead to false results. Protein Motif Fingerprints http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/dbbrowser/PRINTS.html Protein 3D Structure Database [Top] Protein Databank http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/pdb/index.shtml Three dimensional protein structures which can be downloaded and viewed locally (viewer required) or viewed in a hypertext browser window (e.g. Netscape). The structures are experimentally determined by X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. Protein Analysis Utilities [Top] Web Cutter - Restriction Enzyme Mapping Utility http://www.medkem.gu.se/cutter/ Map restriction enzyme sites on your sequence. Easy to use and comprehensive options. Protein Colourer 5-2-1-PUW/UK http://www.ebi.ac.uk/htbin/visprot.pl Colour a protein sequence (raw text or SWISS-PROT Acc. No.) by properties e.g. hydrophobicity. Residue Periodicity Review this site http://o2.dbuoa.gr/FT/ Study the periodicity of residues in a protein sequence. Compute the Theoretical pI and Mr 5-1-2-PUW/Switzerland http://www.expasy.ch/ch2d/pi_tool.html Calculates the theoretical pI or molecular mass of a protein, whose sequence is entered by the user, or referred to as a SWISS-PROT or TrEMBL entry. Random Protein Sequence Generator 5-5-2-PUW/Switzerland http://www.expasy.ch/sprot/randseq.html Random protein sequence generator! Output in FASTA format (the format most commonly required by bioinformatics search sites). PCR Primers & Probes [Top] Primer 3 5-5-2-DUW/Norway http://www2.no.embnet.uio.org/primer/primer3.cgi? Select PCR primers for your nucleotide sequence. HGMP-RC Primers Database http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/local-data/Primers.html EBI Primers Database http://www.ebi.ac.uk/primers_home.html Molecular Probe Data Base (MPDB or MOLPROBE) http://www.biotech.ist.unige.it/interlab/mpdb.html Databases of Non-Human Sequences [Top] Berkeley Fly Database 5-5-2-DDW (UI)/USA http://www.fruitfly.org/bfd/ Search for sequences by name or map location, and optionally view a clickable image of sequenced contigs aligned alongside the fly chromosomes. Searches can be limited to available sequences only. Retrieve P1, BAC or cosmid genomic clones, P element insertion lines, YAC, STS and more. The Institute of Genomic Research Databases http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tdb.html Many databases including microbial, parasites, human, human cDNA, mouse, rat, Arabidopsis, zebrafish, and others. Utilities for Non-Human Sequences [Top] European Drosophila Genome Project BLAST server 5-4-3-DDPDFWE/UK http://edgp.ebi.ac.uk/www-blast.html Search using the WU-BLAST 2.0 (gapped aligned) or the original BLAST (which does not allow gaps). The database includes Drosophila genomic data, EST's, STS's, P element sites, transposons, repeats, and proteins. Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project BLAST Searches 5-4-3-DDFWE/USA http://www.fruitfly.org/blast/ Search for your sequence using the WU-BLAST 2.0 algorithm for D. melanogaster sequence data, including EST's, genomic sequences, STS's or sequences derived from them, P element insertion sites and transposons. (责任编辑:泉水) |