BayGenomics Skills Refresher page

The following list represents critical skills for BayGenomics workshop attendees. Attendees are expected to be familiar with these operations before coming to a workshop; attendees not having these skills may find it hard to keep up. More advanced use of these tools will be covered in each workshop.

NCBI materials:

• BLAST Guide - a step by step guide to BLAST
• BLAST tutorial
• PSI-BLAST tutorial
• Basic concepts of similarity searching
• Similarity searching - rules of thumb
• Sequence Identifiers: A Historical Note
  
  • Accession number
  • GI number
  • Version number
• fasta format
• sample genbank record - with links to explain features
  

Multiple alignments tutorial:

• Introduction to making and using protein multiple alignments by Shmuel Pietrokovski

Suggested reading:

• Protein Sequence Comparison and Protein Evolution by Wm. Pearson