Beginners guide - if you are completely new to the field of bioinformatics a good starting point would be the 'Bioinformatics Introduction' channel. This channel will provide you with basic information on; 'What is Bioinformatics?', the 'Basic Biology' of the cell and a 'Genes & Disease' section which descibes how things can go wrong in our genetic makeup.
Intermediate guide - if you are quite familiar with the general aspects of bioinformatics a good starting point would be the 'Molecular Biology Databases' channel. This channel will provide you with a good overall view of the types of databases that are being used by the bioinformatics community, including descriptions of popular protein/DNA databases and more specialist microarray databases.
The 'Bioinformatics Tutorials' channel provides a guided series of exercises using sample sequences. To obtain more information about these sequences, they are analysed using a variety of bioinformatics tools.
Many terms used in the field of bioinformatics are defined in the extensive 'Glossary' channel. The 'Bioinformatics Resources' channel provides a useful listing of bioinformatics related websites.
This is a collection and brief description of some of the available sequenced genomes. There is also information about why they are thought to be important for sequencing, together with links to the sequences, publication data and further reading...more
