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Biological Databases and Retrieval
5 November,27, 2000 Racheli Zakarin Naomi Keren and Guy Kol
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Biological Databases and Retrieval Systems
Available Databases
What kinds of databases are there?
DNA Databases (Nucleotide Sequences)
Database Searching of Proteins (Amino Acid Sequence)
How to Perform Database-Searching?
Text Based Searching
Sequence Based Searching
Tools for Searching
FastA
FastA - Steps
FastA Output
BLAST - Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
BLAST Output
Significance of Scores
FastA scores
BLAST Score
PSI BLAST
PSI BLAST Output
The Smith-Waterman Tool
Smith-Waterman Output
Comparison of the Programs
Tips for DB Searches
Recommended Sites on the Web
Bibliography
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2000-12-11
