Portal entry sites
General Search links: Information hyperlinked over proteins (iHOP) (this is a useful database to find information regarding proteins as well as synonyms for the proteins)
Database entry portals:
SRS SRS DBGET NCBI Cross-Ref DB (one of the most comprehensive cross-reference sites by the US govt to other Data bases) PubMed ExPASy (protein analysis) The Protein Data Bank (structural data; the PDB contains mroe than 126,000 periementally determined atomic level 3D structures of biological macomolecules (proteins, DNA, RNA). Knowledge of the 3D structure of the gene product can help in understanding its function and role in diease. ) Enzyme Data Base Uniprot (another good database for sequence alignment, and other database entries).
Sequence Analysis/manipulation:
EMBL NCBI Sequence Manipulation Suite (this site will do a lot of functions all in one with a given sequence)
Immunoglobulines: IgBlast. IMGT
Search Engines:
MIA (Molecular Information Agent will actually take your sequence, etc and search for all information pertaining to that query)
Structural Visualization Software
PyMOL (visualization system on an open-source foundation).
Links to Bioinformatic Sites:
Genamics Keuleven Genome Web (very extensive and updated list of genome web sites) Bioreference (very useful too to find highly used links, also provides short description of each link) DBCAT IndianaU EMBL (highly useful site which cross-references you to sites which allow you to do the things you want to do!)
Utility Tools: