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Compiled by M.Mar Alba
Virus Genomics and Bioinformatics


Bioinformatics Centres

NCBI: The National Centre for Biotechnology Information
EBI: European Bioinformatics Institute
UK MRC HGMP-RC: Human Genome Mapping Project
The Sanger Centre: Genome Campus, Hinxton
RSBS Bioinformatics: Research School of Biological Sciences, Canberra
NIH: National Institute of Health, US
ExPASy: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
BMERC: Biomolecular Engineering Research Center
EMBnet/CNB: Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain
SRCG: The Siberian Regional Center for Geneinformatics
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
PBIL: Pole Bio-Informatique Lyonnais
Bloomsbury Centre for Structural Biology, London

Sequence database searches


Sequence retrieval:

Entrez (NCBI)
Query GenBank database (NCBI)
Sequence retrieval system (SRS, EBI)
PDB search
Swissprot (ExPaSy)
Virus Database (UCL)

 

Homology-based search:

BLAST(NCBI)
Fasta (EBI)
The PredictProtein server
TGI (search ESTs) 
PDB-ISL Server (search PDB)


Multiple sequence alignment


Perform alignment:

Clustalw at EBI
Clustalw at Pasteur
MultAlin
Match-Box
Lalign (2 sequences)
Dialign2 (2 sequences)
Blast2 (2 sequences)
Jalview

Edit/Visualise alignment:

Jalview
CINEMA
BoxShade
 
 
 

 

Define conserved blocks:

Block Maker
Meme
Sequence Logo Generation
 
 
 

 


Protein sequence domains

InterPro (EBI)
Prosite (ExPaSy)
Blocks (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Pfam (The Sanger Centre)
Prodom (INRA, Toulouse)
SMART (EMBL)
PRINTS (University of Manchester)
DOMO (J.Gracy/P.Argos)
Hidden Markov Models: theory
HMMER 2.1.1: to build up HMMs
Hidden Markov Models: links

Utilities


Compute pI:

Compute pI/Mw 
(Luca Toldo)
 

 

Design primers:

Oligo Design
Oligo calculator (MW,composition,Tm..)
Primer design (Luca Toldo)
Primer3
 

Translate DNA sequence:

Translate into all possible ORFs (Luca Toldo)
TranslatER: Translate a DNA sequence
Java Ribosome: translate DNA sequence into protein
ORF finder at NCBI

Manipulate sequences:

Reverse and complement sequences (Luca Toldo)
Randomize a sequence (Luca Toldo)
Reverse Complement of Sequence

Protein properties:

SAPS: Statistical Analysis of Protein Sequences 
ProtScale: hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity 
 

Convert sequence file format:

READSEQ: Sequence Format Conversion
 

DotPlot:

Dotter: a dot-matrix program to analyse repetitive sequences
DOTPLOT (Luca Toldo)

Find restriction sites:

Webcutter
Pattern searching

Convert multiple alignment format:

ClustalW - format conversion facility


Protein structure


Databases:

PDB (Protein Data Bank)
CATH (UCL)
SCOP (MRC-LMB)
FSSP (EBI)
 

 

Structure prediction:

JPred (EBI)
PREDATOR (EMBL)
AGADIR (EMBL)
HNN (Pole Bio-Informatique Lyonnais)
PSIpred (Warwick)
SwissModel (ExPaSy)
CPH (Technical University of Denmark)


Genomes

TIGR: The Institute for Genomic Research
Proteome Inc. (YPD, WormPD)
MIPS: Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
Stanford genomic resources (SGD,ATdb)
KEGG Genomes: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
MAGPIE: Automated Genome Project Insvestigation Environment
GOLD v.1.0: Genomes On Line Database
Genethon: Human Genome Research Centre
GDB: Human Genome Database
Herpesvirus genomes (UCL)
Genome analysis (MRC LMB)

Gene Identification

WebGene: CNR, Milan
Grail: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gene Finder: The Sanger Centre
GeneID: Genome Informatics, IMIM



 

Protein interactions and metabolic pathways

DIP: Database of Protein Interactions
INTERACT (Manchester,UK)
KEGG: Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes
EcoCyc: E.coli genes and metabolism
MIPS: yeast pathways
Transpath: signal transduction database
CSNDB: Cell signaling
 


Analysis of regulatory regions


Prediction of binding sites:

MatInspector: binding site prediction 
TESS: binding site prediction
Promoter Scan: promoter prediction
Signal Scan
TFBIND
PROMO
The Promoter Database of 
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Find conserved sites:

MEME: pattern discovery
Pratt: Find patterns 
YEBIS: pattern discovery
Yeast tools: find patterns, etc.
Jaak Vilo homepage: expression, clustering, patterns
 

Related databases:

TRANSFAC: Transcription Factor Database
EPD: Eukaryotic Promoter Database 
Genome-Wide Expression: Young's lab
TRRD: Transcription Regulatory Regions Database, Nobosibirsk
GeneExpress system, Nobosibirsk
TRADAT: TRAnscription Database and Analysis Tools
Plant CARE: plant cys-acting regulatory elements
Muscle-Specific Regulation of Transcription
 

Gene expression clustering

CLUSTER (University of Stanford)
Clustering Methods
Bibliography

 


Repeats

SIMPLE v.3.0: simple sequences
satellites: identifies satellites and periodic repetitions
repeats: microsatellite-type regions

Journals

Science
Nature
Bioinformatics
IDEAL journals
PNAS online: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
In Silico Biology
Journal of Computational Biology
Journal of Molecular Evolution
Computers & Chemistry
embnet.news
Frontiers in Bioscience
Journal Database Browser (NCBI)
Advanced PubMed Search (NCBI)
HMS-Beagle (BioMedNet)
Genome Biology
EMBO journal/Reports
Proteins
Genome Research
Elsevier Science
New Scientist
UCL Library Home Page
PNAS: PNAS at UCL
ICH Medical Library Telnet Resources: links to libraries, mainly UK
ISCB: International Society for Computational Biology
Journal's list
Electronic Journals
Bioinformer
Journal of Molecular Biology
Nature Genetics
Journal of Virology
Nucleic Acids Research
BioMedNet (Current Biology,etc)
Archives of Virology
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Bioinformatics Resource (CCP11)

 

 

Molecular Evolution


WebPHYLIP
Web Resources in Molecular Evolution and Systematics

Programming

CPAN Perl
Bioperl

Funding

Royal Society
Wellcome Trust
ICREA (Catalonia)
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia (Spain)


Miscelanous
 
Biology WorkBench 3.1
FASTA format description
ACUTS
Computational Biology or Bioinformatics references
The Statistics of Sequence Similarity Scores
Bioinformatics WWW Sites
AltaVista: search engine
Amazon: books, etc.
UK street map
The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
The Bioinformatics Resource
Rupert Sheldrake Online
alggen
Statistics programs
Gene Ontology (fly,mouse,yeast)
Sunsite (GNU, downloads)

M. Mar Alba, last updated June 22 2001