What is the NCBI genome database and viewer?
What is it?
The NCBI genome database provides integrated views for a variety of genomes, complete chromosomes, sequence maps with contigs, and integrated genetic and physical maps.
What is it for?
- Understanding the genomic organization of genes; mapping a gene
- Understanding the exon/intron structure of a gene
- Searching for genetic and physical markers
- Accessing comprehensive information about a gene, its transcript(s) and protein(s), structure, activity, and location
- Studying an integrated genetic/physical/sequence map with the ability to zoom using NCBI's excellent Map Viewer (example)
- Obtaining genomic sequence
- Comparative genomics: finding homologs
What's in it?
- Genomic sequences at different stage of finishing from both the public domain sequencing effort and Celera Genomics
- Protein function data
- Gene structure
- Association with diseases
Key references
Source
Lane Librarian
Record created 5/2/2006.
ypouliot, September 14, 2009