Pathways Project: Reference Glossary
The Reference Glossary includes definitions for terms that are frequently used in the Pathways Project.
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Unix Commands: Quick Reference Sheet
A Unix reference sheet for commonly used Unix commands.
Dye Chemistry Characteristics
This document illustrates some of the advantages and potential problems with the BigDye and dGTP chemistries.
Common Misassembly Protocols
This document describes a list of protocols that are frequently used to resolve misassembly.
GEP Misassembly Tools User Guide
This document describes the list of tools developed by the GEP to facilitate incorporation of additional reads from the NCBI Trace Archive into a sequence improvement project. This document shows how to install the tools, and illustrates their use in two case studies (walkthroughs) of challenging fosmid assemblies.
A Guide to Consed
This document is a basic introduction to Consed, a program that allows users to visualize and manipulate a genome assembly. It provides screenshots of the various windows and points out the various functions available.
Glossary for Understanding Eukaryotic Genes
This glossary defines the key terms that are used in the Understanding Eukaryotic Genes modules.
GenBank Accession Number Reference Sheet
This document describes the naming conventions used by NCBI. Students can use these naming conventions to quickly evaluate the type and the reliability of the sequences in the NCBI database.
List of Common Bioinformatics Programs
This document provides a list of web-based annotation tools (and their web addresses) available to students.