SEQUENCE ANALYSIS IN A NUTSHELL: A GUIDE TO COMMON TOOLS AND DATA BASE

This resource pulls together essential information for working with popular databases, analytical tools, and tables available for gene sequence analysis. It contains examples of flat files from key databases (Gen Bank, EMBL, DDBJ, Pfam, PROSITE, and SWISS-PROT), definitions of the codes or fields used in each database, and the sequence feature types/terms and qualifiers for the nucleotide and protein databases. Detailed information on nucleotide, protein, and genetic codes is provided, and command-line syntax is given for the most popular sequence analysis applications. Familiarity with sequence analysis and databases is assumed. Markel is a software architect in the private sector.