WEB RESOURCES

 

 

Resources for Dynamic Programming, FASTA and BLAST

 

 

Online Tutorial for Sequence Alignment & Analysis

 

“Portal” for searching sequence similarities (FASTA, BLAST, Smith-Waterman), patterns, profiles, motifs (e.g., PROSITE), and for performing protein sequence analyses, protein secondary structure predictions and gene analysis/prediction.

 

HELP for FASTA

 

HELP for BLAST

 

Resources for Multiple Sequence Alignments

CLUSTAL W

MSA

MultAlin

ALSCRIPT*

BoxShade*

 

*Alignment Presentation Methods

 

Resources for Protein Motif Searching

Prosite

Prints

Blocks

Pfam

ProfileScan

eMotif

 

 

 

 

              Resources for Identification of Protein-coding Sequences

 

Program
 

Organisms

CDSB

nematode/yeast/plant/bacteria

 

GeneMark

 

many species

GeneParser

 

human

Genie

 

human/Drosophila

GENSCAN

 

vertebrate/Caenorhabditis/maize/Arabidopsis

WebGene

 

human/mouse/diptera

GRAIL

 

human

Procrustes

 

any

 

 

Resources for Repeat Analyses

 

Program

Organism

CENSOR: annotates and masks repeats

Human/rodent

RepBase: repeat collection

Human/several others

Repeat Masker: annotates and masks repeats

Several subgroups of vertebrates

*XBLAST: tools for masking repeats

Any

 

*ftp ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; pub/jmc

 

 

 

               Databases – “Collections”

 

 

Databases – Sequences

 

Databases – Structure

 

Databases – Specialty

Database

Category

KEGG

Metabolism

Metabolic DB

Metabolism

WIT

Metabolism

Mito-Pick

Metabolism

ProNet

Protein-Protein Interactions

Protocols

Cell and Molecular Biological Methods

Protein SCI

Amino Acid Side-chain Interactions

GenomeNet

Genomes

MAGPIE

Genomes

 

 

 

                     Resources for Phylogenetics

 

•Major programs for phylogenetic analyses: 

PHYLIP

PAUP

•Tutorials:

Phyltree

Cladistics

Phylogeny

 

 

 

 

Resources for Genome Biology

 

•On-line tutorials

–http://cmgm.stanford.edu/biochem218/index.html

–http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu/mbb452a/

•Some on-line databases:

COGs

SMART

SCOP