Geospiza, Inc. Green Arrow Tutorials

Tutorials

Alphabetical List
Short Descriptions
By program and/or database

This table shows which programs and/or databases are used in each of the tutorials. To see how a tool or database might be used, select the link to view that tutorial.

Program or Database	Green Arrow Tutorials™
BLAST (NCBI) beginning more advanced	BLAST for beginners Mitochondria and chloroplasts Do all mitochondrial sequences show the same mutation rate? Can we identify the maternal origin of a mitochondrial sequence? How different are the mitochondrial genomes of apes and humans? SNP or Sequencing Error?
Books (NCBI)	Mitochondria and chloroplasts What do mitochondria (or chloroplasts) do?
Cn3D (NCBI) Conserved Domain Database (NCBI) PDB (PDB) MMDB	Protein and DNA structure 1. Finding structures in MMDB 2. Properties of amino acids and the primary structure of proteins 3. Identifying types of secondary structure 4. Protein domains and tertiary structure 5. Understanding quaternary structure
dbSNP (NCBI)	SNP or Sequencing Error
Entrez (NCBI)	Protein and DNA structure Finding structures in MMDB Entrez worksheet Finding genes in plants instructor version (590kb) student version ( 250kb) Cancer Biology Finding cancer genes with PubMed
LocusLink (NCBI)	Allelic variants of SOD Protein and DNA structure Quaternary structure
OMIM (NCBI)	Allelic variants of SOD SNP or Sequencing Error
Organelle Genomes (NCBI)	Mitochondria and chloroplasts What do mitochondria (or chloroplasts) do? Do all mitochondrial sequences show the same mutation rate? Can we identify the maternal origin of a mitochondrial sequence? How different are the mitochondrial genomes of apes and humans?
Pathways (NCI CGAP)	Mitochondria and chloroplasts What do mitochondria (or chloroplasts) do?
Phred (Geospiza, UW)	SNP or Sequencing Error
Phrap (Geospiza, UW)	SNP or Sequencing Error
PubMed (NCBI)	Entrez worksheet Finding genes in plants instructor version (590kb) student version ( 250kb) Cancer Biology Finding cancer genes with PubMed
SNP finder (NCI CGAP)	SNP or Sequencing Error

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