Introduction of PIR-RESID Database (http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pirwww/dbinfo/resid.html)
It is a database of protein post-translational modifications. It provide informations as:
£»A list of alternate names and an IUPAC systematic chemical name.
£»The coding, sequences and structures of proteins.
£»Comparison between proteins.
£»The activity-structures relationship.
£»More.
Introduction of BLAST (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/blast_overview.html)
BLAST is set of similarity search programs designed by NCBI. It provides the informations available even if the query is DNA or proteins. Thus it is not only a searching tools for single DNA nor protein sequence. In this website, it offers the teaching of BLAST and accesses for BLAST.