Chapter 2: Access to Sequence Data and
Literature Information
This web page offers the web documents that are referred to in Chapter 2 of the book, as well as various resources. In this chapter we introduce GenBank and its companion databases, as well as the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). We introduce ways to access a variety of information (including Entrez at NCBI, protein databases such as UniProt, genome browsers such as those at Ensembl and UCSC, and biomedical literature via PubMed).
| Web documents | Pages | Description |
| Web Document 2-1 | 27 |
Accession numbers of three myoglobin DNA and proteins |
| Web Document 2-2 | 28 |
Comparison of two versions of a human alpha globin DNA |
| Web Document 2-3 | Comparisons of RefSeq and non-RefSeq accession numbers |
Chapter 2 Resources |
| Powerpoint of the "access to information" lecture (November 2008, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)(November 2009 pdf) |
| Moodle site. This teaching site includes quizzes and readings; non-registered students can enter as guests |
| Audio file of the lecture (November 2009) |
| Reading assignment: GenBank (by Benson DA et al.; PMID: 18940867) |
| Key URLs: NCBI, Ensembl, European Bioinformatics Institute, UCSC Genome Browser |
This page updated 1-28-10