Blast is a collection of tools and servers for genetic
sequencing.
BioPerl is a collection of Perl modules that constitute
one of the more popular toolkits for accessing, searching,
analyzing, storing and interpreting genomic (DNA etc.)
data. It incorporates statistics, pattern matching, networking,
graphics and data base applications.
Suggested Books:
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Tisdall, J., Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, O'Reilly & and Associates,
Sebastopol, CA, ISBN 0-596-00080-4.
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Mount, D. W., Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, ISBN 0-87969-608-7 (paperback).
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Lecture Notes on Biological Sequence Analysis, Martin Tompa, University of
Washington, Seattle
Bioinformatics Links
GenBank
BioPerl
NCBI and BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Sequencing Tool)
EMBL
Swiss-Prot
FASTA
Data Base Access and Tools
Tutorials
Degree Programs
Regular Expressions and Pattern Matching
Reference Tables and Data