Bioinformatics, as we know it today, exists because of the vast
number of sequence databases created in the last fifteen years. Many
of these databases were constructed by scientists who needed a way to
organize and annotate the data being generated by their efficient
large-sequencing machines. Because these informative sequence files
needed to be read by both computers and humans, most sequence
databases were designed to use a flat file format. In this section,
we explain the more popular flat file formats (GenBank, EMBL, etc.)
and focus on describing, in detail, their sometimes cryptic content.
While many sequence formats are available, the flat file format is
usually used in sequence analysis. Please note that for easy
comparison we have provided the same sequence (cyclin-dependent
kinase 2) for each of the flat file examples. To give a complete
picture of the chosen databases, we have also summarized information
related to the feature terms used in the selected sequence flat
files.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
