Help - Bioinformatics Services

The European Bioinformatics Institute ensures that the growing body of information from molecular biology and genome research is placed in the public domain and is freely accessible to all facets of the scientific community in ways that promote scientific progress. The EBI's databases and tools allow biological information to be stored, integrated, searched, retrieved and analysed.

Databases can be queried using the appropriate tool. To do this you must choose the appropriate tool with the correct set of options for parameters and submit your sequence in the correct format.

Generally you will need to:

Choose a tool.
Select a program to run.
Choose a database to query
Select your options (like matrix gap penalties etc)
Enter or upload your sequence with a job run title and your email.
Press run and wait for your job results to be delivered interactively or by email.