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Table 1 Learning goals

From: Bioinformatics tools for marine biotechnology: a practical tutorial with a metagenomic approach

Software/Database Employed

Educational Goal

BRENDA

Uniprot

BLASTp

Obtain information for a given enzyme class.

Obtain the sequence and the annotations for a given protein.

Search sequence databases using a protein query.

Clustal Omega

Build phylogenetic trees and multiple alignments.

Cons

Derive a Consensus sequence from a multiple alignment.

Reverse Translate

Derive a nucleotide sequence from an amino acid sequence.