CSC8312 -- Bioinformatics Theory and Applications
Searching a Database
First, we are going to try searching for a database.
 | Find a URL for EMBL. Google should be able to help here. It should look
like this |
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- What does EMBL stand for?
- What kind of information is stored in the EMBL database?
- What other databases with this information exist?
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Now that you have found the database in question, we are going to try
searching it. Fortunately, we can get access to EMBL from the front-page. In
this case, we want to make a database query.
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- Click on the database queries link.
- This takes you to a number of options. In this case, we want to query for
individual records rather than look over the entire database.
- Click on the SRS link.
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SRS is a general purpose tool for searching over bioinformatics databases. In
this case, lets just search for PAX6.
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- Put "PAX6" into the top search box. It should look like this.
- You will get back lots of hits.
- The Human Gene has an accession number of BC011953.
- Lets start with the mouse. It has an accession of AF457141. Click on the
left most link.
- You should get a record which looks like this.
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