January 4, 2007
Ligand searching in Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Partial string search Ligand name searching supports partial string matches. For example, searching for ‘benz’ will return all structures that…
Category: bioinformatics
January 4, 2007
Aligning two sequences
To compare only two sequences that are already known to be homologous, coming from related species ‘BLAST 2 Sequence tool…
January 4, 2007
PubMed Search Tips
PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) as part…
October 10, 2006
Ace of (data)base
A biological database is a large, organized body of persistent data, usually associated with computerized software designed to update, query,…
October 9, 2006
Impact of human genome project
The Human Genome Project (HGP) is a project to map and sequence the 3 billion nucleotides contained in the human…
October 2, 2006
Genome projects and bioinformatics
Genome A genome is all of the DNA in an organism, including its genes and a lot of DNA that…
September 29, 2006
Bioinformatics research fields
Bioinformatics research fields broadly classified to the following sub-fields. Some research fields have inter related with one another SEQUENCE ANALYSIS…
September 27, 2006
what is bioinformatics?
Bioinformatics has evolved into a full-fledged multidisciplinary subject that integrates developments in information and computer technology as applied to biotechnology…