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After sequencing of the genome has been done, the first thing that comes to mind is "Where are the genes?". Genome annotation is the process of attaching information to the biological sequences. It is an active area of research and it would help scientists a lot to undergo with their wet lab projects once they know the coding parts of a genome.
As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret the biological data.
After sequencing of the genome has been done, the first thing that comes to mind is "Where are the genes?". Genome annotation is the process of attaching information to the biological sequences. It is an active area of research and it would help scientists a lot to undergo with their wet lab projects once they know the coding parts of a genome.
As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combines biology, computer science, information engineering, mathematics and statistics to analyze and interpret the biological data.
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description of functional genomics and structural genomics and the techniques involved in it and also decribing the models of forward genetics and techniques involved in it and reverse genetics and techniques involved in it
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a database for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. This presentation deals with what, why, how, where and who of PDB. In this presentation we have also included briefing about various file formats available in PDB with emphasis on PDB file format
SWISS-PROT- Protein Database- The Universal Protein Resource Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is the central hub for the collection of functional information on proteins.
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SWISS-PROT- Protein Database- The Universal Protein Resource Knowledgebase (UniProtKB) is the central hub for the collection of functional information on proteins.
Bioinformatics is defined as the application of tools of computation and analysis to the capture and interpretation of biological data. It is an interdisciplinary field, which harnesses computer science, mathematics, physics, and biology
Bioinformatics is a science field that is similar to but distinct from biological computation, while it is often considered synonymous to computational biology.
Biological databases are libraries of biological sciences, collected from scientific experiments, published literature, high-throughput experiment technology, and computational analysis. They contain information from research areas including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microarray gene expression, and phylogenetics
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Computational Biology/Bioinformatics is the application of computer sciences and allied technologies to answer the questions of Biologists, about the mysteries of life. It has evolved to serve as the bridge between:
Observations (data) in diverse biologically-related disciplines and
The derivations of understanding (information)
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Computer Aided Drug Design
Microarray Bioinformatics
Proteomics
Genomics
Biological Databases
Phylogenetics
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2. What is Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary research
area at the interface between computer science
and biological science
• Luscombe et al. in defining bioinformatics as a
union of biology and informatics:
• Bioinformatics uses computers for storage,
retrieval, manipulation, and distribution of
information related to biological
macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and
proteins
3. • Bioinformatics differs from a related field known as
computational biology.
• Bioinformatics is limited to sequence, structural, and
functional analysis of genes and genomes and their
corresponding products.
• However, computational biology encompasses all
biological areas that involve computation.
• For example, mathematical modeling of ecosystems,
population dynamics, application of the game theory in
behavioral studies, and phylogenetic construction using
fossil records all employ computational tools, but do not
necessarily involve biological macromolecules.
4. • The first sequence alignment algorithm was
developed by Needleman and Wunsch in 1970.
• This was a fundamental step in the development of
the field of bioinformatics, which paved the way for
the routine sequence comparisons and database
searching practiced by modern biologists.
• The first protein structure prediction algorithm was
developed by Chou and Fasman in 1974.
5. Goals
• The ultimate goal of bioinformatics is to better understand
a living cell and how it functions at the molecular level.
• By analyzing raw molecular sequence and structural data,
bioinformatics research can generate new insights and
provide a “global” perspective of the cell.
• Cellular functions are mainly performed by proteins whose
capabilities are ultimately determined by their sequences.
• Therefore, solving functional problems using sequence and
sometimes structural approaches has proved to be a fruitful
endeavor.
6. Scope
• Bioinformatics consists of two subfields:
1. The development of computational tools and
databases and
2. Application of these tools and databases in
generating biological knowledge to better
understand living systems.
• The tool development includes: writing software
for sequence, structural, and functional analysis, as
well as the construction and curating (organizing) of
biological databases.
7. • Tools are used in 3 areas of genomic and molecular biological
research:
1. molecular sequence analysis,
2. molecular structural analysis,
3. and molecular functional analysis.
1. Sequence analysis: sequence alignment, sequence database
searching, motif and pattern discovery, gene and promoter finding,
reconstruction of evolutionary relationships, and genome assembly
and comparison.
2. Structural analyses: protein and nucleic acid structure analysis,
comparison, classification, and prediction.
3. Functional analyses: gene expression profiling, protein–protein
interaction prediction, protein subcellular localization prediction,
metabolic pathway reconstruction, and simulation
8.
9. • These 3 aspects are integrated with each other
• For eg: protein structure prediction depends on
sequence alignment data;
• clustering of gene expression profiles requires the use
of phylogenetic tree construction methods derived in
sequence analysis.
• Sequence-based promoter prediction is related to
functional analysis of coexpressed genes.
• Gene annotation include
1.Distinction between coding and noncoding sequences,
2. Identification of translated protein sequences,
3. Determination of the gene’s evolutionary relationship
with other known genes.
10. Applications
• knowledge-based drug design,
• forensic DNA analysis, and
• Agricultural biotechnology.
• Computational studies of protein–ligand interactions provide a rational basis
for the rapid identification of novel leads for synthetic drugs.
• Knowledge of the 3D structures of proteins allows molecules to be designed
that are capable of binding to the receptor site of a target protein with great
affinity and specificity.
• This informatics-based approach significantly reduces the tie and cost
necessary to develop drugs with higher poteny fewer side effects, and less
toxicity than using the traditional trial-and-error approach.
11. LIMITATIONS
• Bioinformatics depends on experimental science to
produce raw data for analysis.
• It, in turn, provides useful interpretation of
experimental data and important leads for further
experimental research.
• The quality of bioinformatics predictions depends on
the quality of data and the sophistication of the
algorithms being used
• Sequence data from high throughput analysis often
contain errors.
• If the sequences are wrong or annotations incorrect,
the results from the downstream analysis are
misleading as well.
12. Program Database Query Typical uses
BLASTN Nucleotide Nucleotide
Mapping oligonucleotides, cDNAs, and PCR
products to a genome; screening repetitive
elements; cross-species sequence exploration;
annotating genomic DNA; clustering sequencing
reads; vector clipping
BLASTP Protein Protein
Identifying common regions between proteins;
collecting related proteins for phylogenetic
analyses
BLASTX Protein
Nucleotide
translated into
protein
Finding protein-coding genes in genomic DNA;
determining if a cDNA corresponds to a known
protein
TBLASTN
Nucleotide
translated into
protein
Protein
Identifying transcripts, potentially from multiple
organisms, similar to a given protein; mapping a
protein to genomic DNA
TBLASTX
Nucleotide
translated into
protein
Nucleotide
translated into
protein
Cross-species gene prediction at the genome or
transcript level; searching for genes missed by
traditional methods or not yet in protein
databases
13. WHAT IS A DATABASE
A database is a computerized archive used to store and organize data in such a way
that information can be retrieved easily via a variety of search criteria.
Databases are composed of computer hardware and software for data management.
The objective of the development of a database is to organize data in a set of structured
records to enable easy retrieval of information.
Each record, also called an entry, should contain a number of fields that hold the actual
data items.
To retrieve a particular record from the database, a user can specify a particular piece of
information, called value, to be found in a particular field and expect the computer to
retrieve the whole data record. This process is called making a query.
14. Types of DATABASES Format
• Flat file
• Relational databases
• Object oriented database
1. Flat File format:
• Originally, databases all used a flat file format, which is a long text
file that contains many entries separated by a delimiter (І)
• The entire text file does not contain any hidden instructions for
computers to search for specific information or to create reports
based on certain fields from each record.
• The text file can be considered a single table
• To search a flat file for a particular piece of information, a computer
has to read through the entire file, an obviously inefficient process
15. • Relational Databases
• Instead of using a single table as in a flat file database,
relational databases use a set of tables to organize data.
• Each table, also called a relation, is made up of columns
and rows
• Columns represent individual fields. Rows represent values
in the fields of records.
• The columns in a table are indexed according to a common
feature called an attribute, so they can be cross-referenced
in other tables
• To execute a query in a relational database, the system
selects linked data items from different tables and
combines the information into one report.
• Therefore, specific information can be found more quickly
from a relational database than from a flat file database.
17. • Object-Oriented Databases
• One of the problems with relational databases
is that the tables used do not describe
complex hierarchical relationships between
data items.
• To overcome the problem, object-oriented
databases have been developed that store
data as objects
• an object can be considered as a unit that
combines data and mathematical routines
that act on the data
18.
19. Types of Biological Databases
• Biological databases can be roughly divided into three categories:
primary databases, secondary databases, and specialized databases.
Primary databases contain original biological data. They are archives
of raw sequence or structural data submitted by the scientific
community.
Eg: GenBank and Protein Data Bank (PDB)
Secondary databases contain computationally processed or manually
curated information, based on original information from primary
databases.
• Translated protein sequence databases containing functional
annotation belong to this category.
• Eg: SWISS-Prot and Protein Information Resources (PIR)
20. • Specialized databases are those that cater to a
particular research interest.
• For example, Flybase, HIV sequence database,
and Ribosomal Database Project are
databases that specialize in a particular
organism or a particular type of data.
21. Primary Databases
• There are 3 major public sequence databases that store raw nucleic acid
sequence data produced and submitted by researchers worldwide:
• GenBank,
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
• DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
• which are all freely available on the Internet.
• Most of the data in the databases are contributed directly by authors with
a minimal level of annotation.
• These three public databases closely collaborate and exchange new data
daily. They together constitute the International Nucleotide Sequence
Database Collaboration.
• Although the three databases all contain the same sets of raw data, each
of the individual databases has a slightly different kind of format to
represent the data.
• For the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules, there
is only one centralized database, the PDB.
• This database archives atomic coordinates of macromolecules (both
proteins and nucleic acids) determined by x-ray crystallography and NMR.
It uses a flat file format to represent protein name, authors, experimental
details, secondary structure, cofactors, and atomic coordinates.
22. • Secondary Databases
• Sequence annotation information in the primary database is often
minimal.
• To turn the raw sequence information into more sophisticated
biological knowledge, much post processing of the sequence
information is needed.
• which contain computationally processed sequence information
derived from the primary databases.
• some are simple archives of translated sequence data from
identified open reading frames in DNA, whereas others provide
additional annotation and information related to higher levels of
information regarding structure and functions.
• A prominent example of secondary databases is SWISS-PROT, which
provides detailed sequence annotation that includes structure,
function, and protein family assignment. The sequence data are
mainly derived from TrEMBL, a database of