Abstract

When we do a bioinformatics analysis, e.g. RNA-seq, we might end up with a list of gene names. We then need to explore these genes. But how can we do that? What are the resources available for that? And how to navigate through them?

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

• How to employ bioinformatics resources to investigate a specific protein family (opsins)?
• How to navigate the Genome Data Viewer to find opsins in the human genome?
• How to identify genes associated with opsins and analyze their chromosome locations?
• How to explore literature and clinical contexts for the OPN1LW gene?
• How to use protein sequences files to perform similarity searches using BLAST?

Learning Objectives

• Starting from a text search, navigate multiple web resources to examine multiple types of information about a gene, conveyed through multiple file formats.