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May 20, 2006
NCBI HomePage - National Center for Biotechnology Information
"Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease."
Tutorials for using NCBI were created by Dr.Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University :
Finding Information about a Gene by Dr. Pete Kirlew (Screencast)
"This video tutorial (47 seconds) provides basic instructions for using NCBI's Entrez Gene resource to find information about a specific gene."
Finding Gene Sequences by Dr. Pete Kirlew (screencast tutorial)
"This tutorial (1 minute 45 seconds) describes how to locate the genomic DNA, mRNA, and protein (amino acid) sequences for a specific gene, using NCBI's Entrez Gene resource."
Finding Gene Exons and Introns by Dr. Pete Kirlew (screencast tutorial)
"This tutorial (50 seconds) describes how to locate intron and exon sequence information for a specific gene, using the gene table feature of NCBI's Entrez Gene resource."
Gene Maps and the Promoter Region by Dr. Pete Kirlew (screencast tutorial)
This tutorial (2 minutes 59 seconds) describes how to use NCBI's gene Map Viewer resource to access the promoter region of a gene.
Finding Protein Domain Information by Dr. Pete Kirlew (screencast tutorial)
This tutorial (2 minutes 30 seconds) describes how to find conserved domain information. Conserved domains contain conserved amino acid sequence patterns, and correlate to protein stucture and function. Organism information is included in the domain records.
Posted by d-nadler at May 20, 2006 09:59 AM