Bio tool frameworks David Bernick BioMolecular Engineering UC Santa Cruz
Frameworks Tool Integration Tool description and links File type conversion File Storage Computational services
Examples Biology Workbench – Next Generation Biology Workbench – Expasy Tools (Expert Protein Analysis) – –Protein Analysis NCBI Genome Workbench – –local -- not Web based –sequence analysis
Biology Workbench San Diego Supercomputer Center Protein and Nucleic acid –search –alignment –analysis –visualization –common interface –file storage and conversion tutorials
Next Generation Biology Workbench (Swami) San Diego Supercomputer Center Replacement for Biology Workbench
ExPasy tools Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics metasite - no file storage proteins - sequence and structure Life Science directory
Nucleic acid analysis Biology Workbench PfAgo - nucleic sequence TACG - restriction site analysis Blastn, Blastx Primer3 NA stats SixFrame RevComp
Usage 1U04 - pdb structure Q8U3D2 - UniProt ascension PF Systematic name NP_ NCBI protein ascension We know of relatives in Aquifex aeolicus and Methanocaldococcus jannaschii We also know that the Piwi domain is detectable. Is the Methanopyrus kandleri version a 4-domain Argonaute?
Analysis strategy Protein or DNA sequence? Data source What should we look for ? Search method Alignment method Visualization
Piwi domain in Prokaryotes
Argonaute Protein
Analysis Protein - select PF0537 from UCSC Archaeal Browser Data source - Non-redundant Protein Database What should we look for? –include a positive and a negative (4 domain and 3 domain) Search method - Blastp Alignment method - ClustalW Visualization
In class exercises What is the closest bacterial example of a 4- domain Argonaute ? (not counting Aquifex aeolicus) What is the GC content of PF0537 ?