Discovery

1) The first exercise is to log into the computer, you have been successful if you can read this...

Please don't forget to shut off the machine properly when you leave the room.

2) Then visit the following web sites and try to find the pages with relevant tools. Bookmark them for the rest of the week.

EMBnet Switzerland (LALIGN, BLAST, ClustalW, T-COFFEE, dotlet...)
ExPASy (Amos links, Proteomics, SWISS-PROT, PROSITE...)
The European Bioinformatics Institute (SRS, EMBL, ENSEMBL, INTERPRO...)
The National Center for Information in Biotechnology (GenBank, BLAST, UniGene, PUBMED...)
The Sanger Center (Pfam, Trace repository, Oncoviewer...)

3) Use the following database retrieval tools and try to download the sequence of human erythropoietin (EPO) protein.

Try to copy or download the sequence in both native database format and FASTA format.

What is the difference between these formats?