Sequence Analysis and the World Wide Web
by Tom Dulaney and Duilio Cascio Fall-96
Outline
- Introduction to concepts
- Details of sequence alignment
- Details of secondary structure prediction
- Exploration of WWW Sites
- Details of various sequence analysis methods available via the WWW.
Sequence Analysis Overview
- Why analyze sequences?
- To gain insight into your system of study.
- What is sequence analysis?
- Searching for specific features
- Sequence alignment
- Secondary structure prediction
- What sort of features might I look for?
- Open Reading Frames
- Promoter regions and binding sites
- Restriction sites
- Motifs
- What can I learn from an alignment?
- Evolutionary analysis
- Structural information
- Infer potential function
- Can you predict a proteins structure from its sequence?
- Secondary structure prediction
- Define membrane spanning regions
- Overview Summary
- Why analyze sequences?
To gain insight into your system of study.