Category: bioinformatics

Orthologs and Paralogs defined as Orthologs: similar sequences or genes in different species that arose through speciation and mutation and…

Antibodies are the soluble proteins of the immune system that bind to pathogens and their toxic products, preventing their harmful…

The Sequence Manipulation Suite (SMS) is a collection of JavaScript programs for generating, formatting, and analyzing short DNA and protein…

It is possible to a model a protein if we have more than 50% identical residues in an alignment between…

The Scriptome is a minimal-learning toolbox for manipulating biological data especially for biologists. There are currently six tool categories: Calculate,…

Virtual screening is a technology that is gaining increasing use in drug discovery. It is seen as a complementary approach…

Sugars are involved in almost every aspect of biology, from recognising pathogens and to blood clotting.The glycome’s basic building blocks…

The availability of structural data, especially of proteins complexed to small molecule ligands, has enabled numerous analyses that attempt to…

Collection of cancer genes based on mutation datahttp://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/Census/ Repository of microarray data from cancer genomics publicationwww.broad.mit.edu/cgi-bin/cancer/datasets.cgi Respository of cytogenetic abnormalities…

PubMed is the free public interface to MEDLINE. It provides access to bibliographic information in MEDLINE as well as additional…

Large-scale genome sequencing has provided us with the building blocks of living organisms. However, to obtain new insights into physiological…

Post-translational modification by phosphorylation is the most abundant type of cellular regulation, affecting essentially every cellular process including metabolism, growth,…

Descriptions in Fasta files is valuable source to know about details of particular sequences. For eg >gi|30677876|ref|NP_849568.1| LHY (LATE ELONGATED…

One of the fundamental goals in cell biology and proteomics is to identify the functions of proteins in the context…

Metagenomics is a new field of research in which scientists analyze the genomes of organisms recovered directly from the environment.…

The BindingDB is a public, web-accessible database of measured binding affinities of small, drug-like molecules for proteins known to be…

PathBLAST is a network alignment and search tool for comparing protein interaction networks across species to identify protein pathways and…

A primer is a short synthetic oligonucleotide which is used in many molecular techniques from PCR to DNA sequencing. These…

The concept of quaternary structure was first put forward by Bernal in 1958. Quaternay structure is defined as the level…