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Lesk: Introduction to Genomics

The major genomics web sites

Ensembl
www.ensembl.org/index.html

A joint project of the European Bioinformatics Institute outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL - EBL) and the Sanger Institute (www.sanger.ac.uk), in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.
Introductions to the use of Ensembl appear at:
www.ensembl.org/info/using/website/index.html
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/pdf/ensembl_tutorial.pdf

ENTREZ
http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

A comprehensive set of databases including but not limited to genomic sequences. It is based at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, at the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.
A tutorial in its use appears at:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/tutor.html

The UCSC Genome Browser
http://genome.ucsc.edu/

This is based at the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz). It is described in the following recent paper: Zweig, A.S., Karolchik, D., Kunh, R.M., Haussler, D. & Kent, W.J. (2008), UCSC genome browser tutorial. Genomics 92, 75-84.
A tutorial, developed by OpenHelix, LLC, appears at:
http://www.openhelix.com/downloads/ucsc/ucsc_home.shtml