Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 7.2
Internet tools for gene discovery in DNA sequence data.
Important Home Pages
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/About/SEQNET/
GenBank
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/
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 acceleration.
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/
Genomic Sequence Databases
These are the three primary sequence databases. They exchange sequence information daily.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/Help/General/general.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
Sequence Search and Retrieval
Sequence Retrieval System (SRS)
http://srs.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/
Entrez
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/
Very comprehensive indeed!
Open Reading Frame (ORF) Finder
ORF Finder
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gorf/gorf.html
Finds likely open reading frames in a sequence.
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