{"id":1306,"date":"2022-02-02T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T14:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/materials\/structural-bioinformatics-materials\/day-1\/sequences-alignments-and-annotation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T13:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T13:35:36","slug":"sequences-alignments-and-annotation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/materials\/structural-bioinformatics-materials\/structural-biology-data-and-sequences\/sequences-alignments-and-annotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequences: Alignments and Annotation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Trainer:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/materials\/structural-bioinformatics-materials\/trainer-biographies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Raposo, Fabio Madeira, and Nandana Madhusoodanan <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overview:<\/strong>  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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To complete the tutorial, you can listen to the below recording, or work through the self-explanatory slides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Learning outcomes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the end of this session you will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Run a sequence alignment from UniProt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run a BLAST of protein sequences in UniProt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tutorial video <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embl-ebi.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=728a27ac-7d06-4873-9353-af2d01178094&amp;autoplay=false&amp;offerviewer=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showbrand=true&amp;captions=false&amp;interactivity=all\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/training\/2022\/Structural_Bioinformatics_2022\/Day%201\/Sequences_%20Alignments_and_Annotation\/Pedro%20-%20BLAST%20and%20Align%20-%20material.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Align and BLAST tools in UniProt tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/training\/2025\/Structural_bioinformatics_2025\/Day_1\/Structural%20Bioinformatics%20-%202025%20-%20BLAST%20and%20Align%20Intro.pdf\">2025 update to Align and BLAST tools in UniProt tutorial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>If you want a quick guide (2-3 min), you could watch the following tutorials on Youtube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UPaConHNP7E&amp;list=PLk96kjgxotiZx4ZcHA1ggdx5_b9Je2kxN&amp;index=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BLAST<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IAYFLfPQ0Gs&amp;list=PLk96kjgxotiZx4ZcHA1ggdx5_b9Je2kxN&amp;index=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Align<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The PDF documents contains some exercises that will help you to familiarise yourself with the BLAST and Align tools in UniProt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/training\/2022\/Structural_Bioinformatics_2022\/Day%201\/Sequences_%20Alignments_and_Annotation\/UniProt_align_BLAST_exercises.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UniProt align BLAST exercises<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/training\/2022\/Structural_Bioinformatics_2022\/Day%201\/Sequences_%20Alignments_and_Annotation\/UniProt_align_BLAST_exercises_answers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Align and BLAST tools in UniProt answers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.ebi.ac.uk\/pub\/training\/2025\/Structural_bioinformatics_2025\/Day_1\/Bioinformatics%20resources%20for%20protein%20biology%20-%20UniProt%20-%20Exercises%20and%20answers.pdf\">2025 Align and BLAST in UniProt exercises and answers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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