Sequences: Alignments and Annotation

Trainer: Pedro Raposo, Fabio Madeira, and Nandana Madhusoodanan

Overview: In this tutorial you will find a brief overview on how to access and run the sequence analysis tools Align and BLAST in UniProt, how to navigate the results and how to exploit UniProt protein annotation to expand further the analysis of your results.

To complete the tutorial, you can listen to the below recording, or work through the self-explanatory slides.

Learning outcomes:

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Run a sequence alignment from UniProt
• Run a BLAST of protein sequences in UniProt

Materials:

Tutorial video

• Align and BLAST tools in UniProt tutorial

If you want a quick guide (2-3 min), you could watch the following tutorials on Youtube:

• BLAST
• Align

The PDF documents contains some exercises that will help you to familiarise yourself with the BLAST and Align tools in UniProt:

• UniProt align BLAST exercises
• Align and BLAST tools in UniProt answers