Bioinformatics

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Bioinformatics

• Interdisciplinary science that involves
  developing and applying information technology
  for analyzing biological data

Overview of Bioinformatics
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BLAST

• The BLAST programs (Basic Local Alignment Search
  Tools) are a set of sequence comparison
  algorithms that are used to search international
  sequence databases for regions of similarity
  between sequences

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BLAST

• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

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BLAST
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BLAST
Program  Description
blastp Compares an amino acid query sequence against a protein sequence database.
blastn Compares a nucleotide query sequence against a nucleotide sequence database.
blastx Compares a nucleotide query sequence translated in all reading frames against a protein sequence database. You could use this option to find potential translation products of an unknown nucleotide sequence.
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BLAST
ACATTTGCTT CTGACACAAC TGTGTTCACT AGCAACCTCA
AACAGACACC ATGGTGCACC TGACTCCTGA GGAGAAGTCT
GCCGTTACTG CCCTGTGGGG CAAGGTGAAC
GTGGATGAAGTTGGTGGTGA GGCCCTGGGC AGGCTGCTGG
TGGTCTACCC TTGGACCCAG AGGTTCTTTGAGTCCTTTGG
GGATCTGTCC
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BLAST
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BLAST
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BLAST
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BLAST
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BLAST
BLAST for Beginners Tutorial