Chapter !3 - Mapping, Sequencing, Annotation and databases Code : KSI0012
<Index of Chapter 3>
Classical genetics as background
-What is a gene?
Maps and tour guides
- Genetic maps
- Linkage
- Linkage disequilibrium
- Chromosome banding pattern maps
- High- resoultion maps, based directly on DNA sequences
- Restriction maps
Discovery of the structure of DNA
DNA sequencing
- Frederick Sanger and the development of DNA sequencing
- The Maxam-Gilbert chemical cleavage method.
- Automated DNA sequencing
Organizing a large- scale sequencing project
- Bring on the clones : hierachical - or ' BAC - to BAC' - genome sequencing
- Whole genome shotgun sequencing
- High- throughput sequencing
- Life in the fast lanes
Databanks in molecular biology
- Nucleic acid sequence databases
- Protein sequence databases
- Databases of genetic diseases -OMIM and OMIA
- Databases of structures
- Classifications of protein structures
- Specialized or 'boutique' databases
- Databases of metabolic pathways
- Bibiographic databases
- Survery of moleucular biology databases and servers