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Bioinformatics-Lab

Sana Tariq
What is the purpose of bioinformatics?

• Computational analysis of biological data


Bioinformatics databases
• NCBI (The National Center for Biotechnology Information)
 From USA applicable all over the world

• EMBL(The European Molecular Biology Laboratory)


 Contain European data

• DDBJ(The DNA Data Bank of Japan )


 Contain Asian data
NCBI
Practical 1

• Find information about a gene from NCBI?


• Gene name = ckit
How could we open the homepage of
NCBI?

• Open google browser


• Search NCBI
• Click first link
• Homepage of NCBI will open
Steps
• Home page of NCBI was opened
• In left box from dropdown menu gene was
selected
• In right box gene name “ckit” was typed
• Clicked on search
Steps
• A page was opened which contained information about ckit
gene in gene database

• Many result of search was found

• Open the result of your interest

• As my interest was in homo sapiens

• So, I clicked on first link whose gene id was 3815


Steps
• After clicking on the first link another page was
opened which contained detailed information about
ckit gene in Homo sapiens
• In this way I found information about ckit gene from
NCBI as in fig

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