Data Sets and Tools

• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
  • GenBank home
  • Genomes
  • Genome Data Viewer
  • Nucleotides
  • Proteins
  • Genes
  • Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
  • Gene Homolog/Ortholog
  • OMIM database of genetic disorders
  • Expressed sequence tags
  • Simple Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP)
  • Trace Archive
  • BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
    (tutorial)
  • Open Reading Frame (ORF) Finder


• Kyoto Encylopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG)
  • protein structure and function
  • metabolic pathways


• Univerisity of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
  • Genome browser
  • Discussion of 2017 changes to Genome browser


• Bioinformatics.org
  • Sequence Manipulation Suite (SMS) - version 2