Movies of Common Techniques

Agarose Gels

Pouring Agar Plates

Pouring SDS–PAGE Gels

Running SDS-PAGE Gels

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)


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Useful Links

Sequence Comparison/Alignment

Clustal W - protein multiple sequence alignment

BLAST - compare two protein or DNA sequences with each other

DNA Analysis

JustBio - Can be used to predict open reading frame and to produce
complements and reverse complements of DNA sequences

Primer 3 - Site to design PCR primers

Company Websites

New England Biolabs - very useful tools for dealing with restriction digests

Promega - more useful tools for restriction digests

S.commune - specific sites

Augustus - program that predicts open reading frames given
nucleotide sequences with introns and exons

Genomic Sequence - site where you can search the S. commune genome

Literature Search+Organization Sites

Entrez - general database with literature, sequences and more

Refworks - website for organizing references

Protein Structure

PDB - database of known protein structures