I’ll try to keep this page updated with the kinds of things that I’m familiar with and find the most useful. The resources in this list will be used extensively in tutorials on this site.
General
- Genes: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene
- Proteins: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein
- Flies: http://flybase.org/
- Yeast: http://www.yeastgenome.org/
Genomes:
- Prokaryotes: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Bacteria/
- E.coli (for use in this site’s tutorials): ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genbank/genomes/Bacteria/Escherichia_coli_O157H7_uid226/
Online Tools:
- Protein domain prediction: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/wrpsb.cgi
- Best multiple sequence alignments: http://prodata.swmed.edu/promals3d/promals3d.php
- Not-as-good alignments: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalw2/
- Translate DNA: http://expasy.org/tools/dna.html
- Primer melting temp: http://www.promega.com/biomath/calc11.htm
