Lecture 30 Oct 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

Chapters in the course book ("Introduction to bioinformatics", T K Attwood and D J Parry-Smith):

• Chapter 2, "Information networks"
• Chapter 3, "Protein information resources"
• Chapter 4, "Protein information resources"
• Chapter 8, "Secondary database searching"