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Lesk: Introduction to Bioinformatics: 3e

Chapter 04

Each year the January issue of the journal Nucleic Acids Research contain a set of articles on databases in molecular biology. This should be kept at hand for ready reference.

Bishop, M.J. (1999). Genetics Databases. Academic Press, London. A compendium of databases, access and analysis.

Doolittle, R.F. (1981). Similar amino acid sequences: chance or common ancestry? Science 214, 149-159. Some basic ideas about the relationship between sequence similarity and homology. [PubMed: 7280687] [DOI: 10.1126/science.7280687]

Hubbard T.J. et al. (2007). Ensembl 2007. Nucleic Acids Research, 35, D610-D617. Recent description of Ensembl.

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/posters/chromosome/sequence.shtml Tutorial covering accessing records in NCBI's sequence databases, with links to tutorials about other ENTREZ databases.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html NCBI tutorial on use of PubMed.

Likić, V.A. (2006). Databases of metabolic pathways. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 6, 408-412. Expository comparison of BioCyc and KEGG. [DOI: 10.1002/bmb.2006.494034062680]