NCBI Molecular Biology Resources Using Entrez January 2008
WWW Access Entrez & BLAST
Entrez: Database Integration Word weight PubMed abstracts Homologene 3-D Structure 3 -D Structure VAST Gene Neighbors Related Structures BLAST Nucleotide sequences Protein sequences BLAST Neighbors Related Sequences BLink Domains Neighbors Related Sequences Hard Link
The Links Menu: Access to Neighbors and Links SNP GEO Gene PubMed Protein
The Links Menu: Access to Neighbors and Links Neighbors: BLAST Link pre-computed BLAST Neighbors: pre-computed CDD search
The Links Menu: Access to Neighbors and Links Hard Links Neighbors
Database Searching with Entrez Using limits and field restriction to find human MutL homolog Linking and neighboring with MutL Mapping SNPs onto structure
Global NCBI (Entrez) Search colon cancer
Global Entrez Search Results
Nucleotide database now three parts Nucleotide Sequences Nucleotide database now three parts EST expressed sequence tags GSS genome survey sequences CoreNucleotide everything else
Core Nucleotide Results with Gene Preview New! Taxonomy Filters New! Gene Preview more relevant results
Advanced Search Options Tabs Tabs Taxonomy filter
More Precise Nucleotides Search colon cancer[Title] AND nonpolyposis[Title] AND human[Organism] AND biomol_mrna[Properties] AND srcdb_refseq[Properties]
Useful Field Restrictions [Title]: Definition line in GenBank / GenPept format shown in Summary format glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate dehydrogenase[Title] [Organism]: NCBI’s taxonomy. Organizing system for molecular databases mouse[organism]; green plants[organism]; Streptomyces coelicolor[organism] [Properties]: molecule type, location, database source biomol_mrna[properties]; biomol_genomic[properties]; gene_in_mitochondrion[properties]; srcdb pdb[properties] [Filter]: subsets of data, Entrez links all[filter]; nucleotide mapview[filter]; nucleotide omim[filter]
Entrez Tip: Start Searches in Gene BLink Homologene: Gene Neighbors
Gene Results nonpolyposis colon cancer AND human[Organism]
Precise Results MLH1[Gene Name] AND Human[Organism] NCBI Taxonomy
Organism Field: NCBI’s Taxonomy All molecular databases
MLH1 Gene Record
MLH1 Gene Record: Interactions and GO
MLH1 Sequences
MLH1 Gene Record: Sequences
MLH1: Sequence Links
Gene Table: Genomic Sequences
Map Viewer: All Sequences Customizable Transcripts EST Hits Download data and sequences Models NCBI Assembly Gene Annotations
MLH1 Homologs
Synteny: Mammalian Genomes Albumin Gene Family
Finding Homologs: HomoloGene
HomoloGene Cluster Gene Links Protein Links
HomoloGene Downloader Protien mRNA Genomic
Finding Homologs 2: BLink Gene Protein
BLink: BLAST Link (Best Hits) Redundant Proteins First 200 only Tomato homolog BLAST
Finding Polymorphisms Gene
GeneView: Variations Human MLH1 ATPase domain
MLH1 Structure Model and Mapping Polymorphisms
Related Structures: structure model
Sequence Similar Structures Conserved Domain Link to Structure Link to Alignment
E. coli MutL Structure Cn3D viewer Conserved Domains
Alignment Based Model: Mapping Polymorphisms Mg2+ binding site Ile - Val
Better Model: Conserved Domain Gene Protein Related Structures
Better Model: Conserved Domain Mg2+ binding site Ile – Val Position 32