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1 of the important toools in bioinformaatics and how to do literature search


what is database?

computerized archive used to store and organize dat in a seto f structured…. slides

this is important when we do research projects

there are alot of databases, most of them:

  1. journals (free, paid)
  2. scientific articles

you have dna sequence, and articles

both are designed in a way to be stored, annotated, and retrived?

3 types of databases (biological data):

  1. primary:
    1. original raw data, data of the dna fragement sequenced coming out of the machine
    2. they can be stored in gene banks