HOMEWORK#2
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Collect Bio-related database and add to your bookmarks.
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Pick up your favorite one. Give me its address and a short description.
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Give me an example that shows -
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(1) How you get the information from this database.
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(2) What information you get from this database.
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This homework should be submitted in your homepage.
My favorite
is "NCBI"( Nation Center for Biotechnology Information ) .
Its address
is" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/"
In this
we can search :
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PubMed MEDLINE
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Entrez Search System
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BLAST Sequence Similarity Searching
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Searching GenBank
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Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
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Gene Map of the Human Genome
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OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
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MMDB: Molecular Modelling Database ....
For example:
Search a X-linked inherited disease:Glucous-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
deficiency
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Papers:From PubMed MEDLINE keyword"Glucous-6-phosphate dehydrogenase ".I
can get all papers about this project.
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In OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man ) type the keyword "Glucous-6-phosphate
dehydrogenase " I can find the introduction , protein , DNA , genome ,
gen map about G6PD deficiency.