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• Services Help Index
• What Tool should I Use?
• Which Database Can I Search?
• Which Sequence Format Will the System Accept?
• What are Amino Acid and Nucleotide Codes?
• What is a DNA Strand?
• What is a Reading Frame?
• Molecule Types
• How do I Choose an Optimal Alignment?
• What is a Substitution matrix? Which One Should I Use?
• What Are Gap Penalties?, What Value Should I Use?
• References

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• EBI
• Help

Help - Available Tools

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) toolbox area provides a comprehensive range of tools for the field of bioinformatics.

These are subdivided into several categories, to browse these, please go to http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/, and select an appropriate category. On this new page you will find links to help documents and the tools. If you need help, you can also check out our training website at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/, or our 2can support portal at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/

NB. The EBI has a range of search engines available to query many types of molecular biology databases including; nucleotide sequence, protein sequence, protein function/interactions, gene expression & microarray, gene ontologies, biological structure, scientific literature & text mining and metabolic pathway databases. Please see the 'EBI Database Queries' page, or just use the new EB-eye Search engine to query a range of databases at the EBI.