A few days ago
jjprd

Find a gene?

In my class, our research project is to take an assigned human DNA sequence, and determine (as appropriate) which gene it is a part of, what protein is encoded by that gene, etc. We can use any resource available, but I have no idea where to go. Is there a website, or a free program that can analyze my sequence and provide me with the information I need? I have tried several, but they are very complex, and I don’t know the correct format to input my sequence, nor do I know what search parameters to use. Any advice is greatly appreciated!!

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A few days ago
JS

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Hi. Try using the NHI blast site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/). It’s the site that real researchers use and should have any of your class assigned DNA sequence in its database.

It should give you all of that information. It’s been awhile since I’ve used it, but it’s not really that complicated. You can use different searches to search different databases (nucleotide sequence vs. database, nucleotide sequence against protein database, etc.)

Enter the sequence using FASTA format. Basically.

>Sequence Name (you can enter testsequence, seq1, etc)

DNA sequence (GCAAGTCA, etc.)

If you’re still having problems post the sequence and I might be able to take a look at it.

P.S. I looked at the site listed above. It’s kind of a cool little program. But it’s not quite what you need. It’s more for finding restriction sites in a sequence.

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A few days ago
Willow
Your question sparked an interest in me because I remember being doing a DNA project in college. Yes, it can get very complex. I just did a quick search, not sure if this is exactly what could help you or not. But I found a freeware DNA cloning, sequence analysis program and plotting software you could download. It is at

http://www.acaclone.com/

If that is not what you need, I just typed in dna analysis in the search box…you might want to add “gene” before analysis. Good luck!

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