Resources
The facility maintains centralize resources that are accessible for "self service" via the links below. Access to these resources is available from computers within the institute and requires a username and password to use from outside computers.
| Service | Description | Launch | Manuals / Tutorials |
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| BLAST |
The Wistar local blast server
provides access to a local version of the NCBI BLAST family of
programs. The interface is similar to that used at NCBI's web site.
Sequence databases from NCBI as well as custom in-house databases are
maintained and accessed locally.
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MegaBlast [readme] PSI/PHI Blast [readme]
Blast [readme]
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| GCG / SeqWeb |
SeqWeb: Web interface for GCG contains collection of programs used to analyze or manipulate DNA and protein sequence data Browsers that are currently
supported for GCG / SeqWeb: |
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| SFT | Secure File Transfer (SFT) service is a web-based application designed to facilitate secure sharing of files between collaborators within a project. Privaleges to upload, download, and delete files can be customized for each member of a project. User accounts and projects can be configured by bioinformatics facility personnel. | ||
| Gene-specific siRNA selector |
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) guides
sequence-specific degradation of the homologous mRNA, thus producing
"knock-down" cells. siRNA design tool scans a target gene for candidate
siRNA sequences that satisfy user-adjustable rules. |
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| BayesMiRNAfind | The application predicts microRNA genes using a machine learning technique, the Naïve Bayes classifier. This computational procedure automatically generates a model from the input or training data, which is the sequence and structure of known microRNAs from a variety of species. |
Bioinformatics Facility moves into Wistar's
new Center for Systems and Computational Biology