NCBI Main Page (National Center for Biotechnology Information) - Best Place to Start

PubMed and PubCrawler - literature searches: manual and automated

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) - genes and their phenotypes (Discovery Question)

BLASTn and BLASTp - nucleotide and protein sequence searches (Discovery Question-n) (Discovery Question-p)

Electronic PCR - submit DNA sequence and find the Open Reading Frame (ORF) (Discovery Question)

Kyte-Doolittle Predictions - predict transmembrane domains (Discovery Question)

SGD (Saccharomyces Genome Database) - one stop shopping for yeast information

Function Junction - search several integrated databases for gene information (Discovery Question)

MIPS - good annotations for yeast genes with may links out

Human

OMIM - genes and their phenotypes

TSC (The SNP Consortium) - compilation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (Discovery Question longer problem)

Genome Browser - graphical display of genome information (Discovery Question longer problem)

Unigene - good compilation of gene functions

GeneCards - another good compilation of gene functions

Expression Connection - search page for gene expression for many different experiments (Discovery Question)

SMD (Stanford Microarray Database) - multispecies list of public domain data (Discovery Question)

NCBI's GEO - new site for standardization of microarray data

PDB (Protein DataBase) - structure files for viewing proteins in 3D (Discovery Question)

Stan Fields' web pages - yeast two-hybrid, mass spectrometry, etc.

DIP (Database of Interacting Proteins) - protein/protein interaction networks (Discovery Question)

SwissProt Database - good general proteomics information source (Discovery Question)



Swiss 2D Database - shows 2D gels for many species (Discovery Question)

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