BIO314H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, Brca Mutation, Marfan Syndrome
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Bio314 lab 10 introductory bioinformatics (part 1) 2 genetic screening using blast queries and alignments. Section 1 some important resources databases, tools, etc. Online mendelian inheritance in man (genes & genetic disorders): http://www. omim. org/ Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (kegg): http://www. kegg. jp/kegg/pathway. html. Comparative toxicogenomics database (interactions between toxins and genes): http://ctdbase. org/ Usda plants database (taxonomy & species ranges in na, native vs. non-native, benign vs. invasive, identification keys, etc. When beginning work on a particular research question, in addition to a survey of the literature it is often helpful to examine what other relevant information and pre-existing experimental data is available from various databases. Generally speaking, it is easiest to begin your search in a meta database, i. e. a database itself calls up information from many other, more subject specific, databases. Below the search bar, you will see the names of all the databases that entrez searches and a short description of what each contains: search the term marfan syndrome.
