Lecture 18 Jan 2001 Per Kraulis

Databases in bioinformatics

1. Biological databases: why?
2. The different types of databases
3. Accession codes vs identifiers
4. Nucleotide sequence databases
5. Protein sequence databases
6. Sequence motif databases
7. Macromolecular 3D structure databases
8. Other relevant databases
9. Systems for searching, indexing and cross-referencing

Bioinformatics websites list