Using the GCG Sequence Analysis Package on UNIX Introduction by Toby Gibson Friday 6th May 09.30-13.00. Exploring sequence databases with SRS Introduction by Chenna Ramu 14.00-17.00. Generating trees from aligned sequences Introduction by Jose Castresana Practical 1. This practical introduces some web servers provided at EMBL, Heidelberg. These can be accessed from any computer and are simple to use.
Web servers are often the nicest way to do sequence analysis.
But you should be aware that they can be unreliable, need constant care from their providers and are not suited to every task. Sometimes you have to run programs on local machines too. It offers many aspects of sequence analysis that are not available on, or are unsuitable for WWW servers. We will do exercises involving one, two or many sequences. Exploring sequence databases with SRS SRS, the Sequence Retrieval System, is a powerful program for indexing and retrieving data from sequence databases.