Links to useful sites
Links to useful protocols and tables
 
 

Links to useful sites
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information: Home of Blast, Entrez, much else
Molecular Toolkit	Colorado State's collection of useful tools to manipulate DNA and protein sequences
Meme	Discovers motifs within sets of unaligned sequences
Gibbs Sampler	Discovers motifs within sets of unaligned sequences
Protocols and Tables
Download Adobe Acrobat	You probably already have Acrobat on your computer, but if you can't read PDF files, try downloading a free copy.
Genetic code	Useful on line reference to recall code, types of amino acids, and their abbreviations
How to download Perl	You can use Perl on a server, but you might be happier having a free copy on your own computer. There will be some exercises where you'll NEED your own copy.
How to write/run a program	Entering a program on your own computer and running it
How to download Blast	Get a copy of Blast for your own computer, to run genomic comparisons or other applications you can't do through the web version
How do download bacterial genomic databases	Access TIGR's set of completed bacterial genomes to download files containing complete list of proteins or complete DNA sequence
How to run Blast to compare genomes	Create a database consisting of set of proteins or DNA sequence. Compare a set of proteins or DNA sequences to the database.