Bromham: Reading the Story in DNA 
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Chapter 3
We are all mutants
Or: how do I identify individuals?
TechBox 3.1 - Gene names
There are many species-specific guidelines for naming genes, for example:
human - www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature
slime-mould Dictyostelium - http://dictybase.org
TechBox 3.2 - Biobanking
An internet search will reveal the URLs of many biobanks, including the two mentioned here:
deCODE - www.decode.com
the Genographic Project - www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic
Case study 3.2 A modern Icelandic saga: biobanking identifies a schizophrenia gene
The database of health and genetic data is currently only available to Icelandic researchers and through licences granted by deCODE:
www.decode.is
TechBox 3.4 - BLAST
There are many online tutorials - see links from NCBI webpage:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Korf, I., Yandell, M. and Bedell, J. (2003) BLAST. O‘Reilly & Associates covers practical and theoretical aspects of blast searching from the group up. It is available as a hard-copy book or online:
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/0596002998
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