Important Websites to know in Bioinformatics

As I was feeling my way through a bioinformatics workshop today, I realized how long it would take me to find these sites by myself with no help from Professor Lee Kozar. So, I decided to quickly jot them down someplace safe so if and when I need them, they are readily available!

Now, the first thing to know in binf (my code for bio-informatics in this blog) is where to search for what

Parameter	Database
Nucleotide	Genbank, EMBL
Protein	SwissProt, PIR, GenPept
3D Structures	RCSB (PDB)
Enzymes	LIGAND
Sequence Motifs	Prosite, Blocks, eMotifs
Pathways and Complexes	KEGG, EcoCyc
Molecular Disease	OMIM
Biomedical Research	Medline
Vectors	UniVec
Protein Mutations	PMD (Protein Mutant Database)
Gene Expressions	GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus)
Microarray Data	SMD ( Stanford Microarray Database)
Chemical Data	MDL

An important ftp site to know to get more information about Genbank

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov

Important sites for Data Conversion:

Site that translates RNA/ DNA to protein:

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/emboss/transeq/

A site that coverts the protein sequence back to RNA/DNA (Reverse translation or back translation)

http://bioinformatics.org/sms2/rev_trans.html

A site to compare two nucleotide sequences

http://www.ch.embnet.org/software/LALIGN_form.html