Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics

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Chapter 12: Completed genomes and the tree of life


Web resources from Chapter 12
Website URL
The European Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Database http://oberon.fvms.ugent.be:8080/rRNA/index.html
The European Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Database (alternate) http://oberon.rug.ac.be:8080/rRNA/
The Convention on Biological Diversity http://www.biodiv.org/
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.net/
The Tree of Life http://www.panspermia.org/tree.htm
The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/
Genome Sequencing Centers http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PMGifs/Genomes/links.html
The UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/GenomeWeb/genome-centres.html
The UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre (alternate) http://igweb.integratedgenomics.com/GOLD/Genomiclinks.html
TIGR http://www.tigr.org/
Celera Genomics http://www.celera.com/
Phred and Phrap http://www.phrap.org/
Examples of Phase 1,2,3 sequences in GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/HTGS/examples.html
Trace Archive BLAST server http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/mmtrace.html

 

Tables

 

Table 12-2. Web-based resources for completed genome projects. Most of these sites contain links to additional, related resources.
Resource Description
EBI European Bioinformatics Institute
GNN Genome News Network; includes photographs of organisms
GOLD Genomes Online Database
Infobiogen Complete microbial genomes
NCBI Entrez at National Center for Biotechnology Information
PEDANT Protein Extraction, Description and Analysis Tool
TIGR The Institute for Genomic Research
 
Table 12-19. Gene finding programs, as summarized at the Southwest Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Center (http://www.swbic.org/links/1.4.3.2.php). Additional programs are listed at that web site.

 

Resource Source and description
BCM Gene Finder Provides several tools to identify genes
GeneFind Protein family identification of queries and keyword searches
GeneMark Provides several gene prediction programs
Gene Parser Identifies protein coding regions in genomic DNA
GeneScan Identification of complete gene structures in genomic DNA
Glimmer A system for finding genes in microbial DNA
GRAIL Gene Recognition and Assembly Internet Link
ORF Finder Open reading frame finder
Procrustes Gene recognition via spliced alignment
 
Table 12-x. Genome projects
Description
NCBI’s Entrez genome
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
InfoBiogen (click “genomic”)
GenomeWeb of UK Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
ORPHEUS-Gene prediction software
Transcription factor database
FastM and ModelInspector-Search for two distance-correlated transcription factor binding sites
The Sanger Center-Danio rerio
The Sanger Center-protozoans
Artemis: a DNA sequence viewer and annotation tool
WebAce-The Sanger Center
Genome Databases in Japan
E-Cell Project
WIT home page
Sea urchin genome project home
Sea urchin genome project
DNA Symmetry Elements and their Meanings-On the chronology of genome sequencing projects
Database of Genome Sizes (DOGS)
MAGPIE
The Tree of Life Web Project
 

 

 

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