Bioinformatics resources on the web

General Databases

ENSEMBL Complete genome viewer for a variety of organisms including human, fugu, dog etc
AtENSEMBL Arabidopsis Ensembl viewer
EMBL European Bioinformatics Institue database of DNA and protein sequences for all organisms
NCBI Database of DNA and protein sequences for all organisms

Homology searches

BLAST Search databases using DNA or protein sequences to identify homologous sequences
FASTA Search databases using DNA or protein sequences to identify homologous sequences

Multiple alignment of sequences

ClustalW Align multiple DNA or protein sequences

DNA sequence analysis

GeneMark Identifies coding regions within a DNA sequence
Transeq Translate DNA sequences into protein sequences
Restriction analysis Identify restriction enzyme sites within a DNA sequence
Reverse complement Produce the reverse complement of a DNA sequence or change single stranded into double stranded sequence
TRES Transcription regulatory element search. Search promoter sequences for known regulatory motifs
PlantCARE Search plant promoters for known regulatory motifs
OTFBS Over-represented transcription factor binding site prediction tool. Detects over-represented motifs in a set of promoter sequences

Transcriptomics

Databases

NASCarrays Arabidopsis Affymetrix database
ArrayExpress Database of Affy and micro arrays for all organisms at EBI

General analysis

EPCLUST Tool for clutser analysis of array data

Affymetrix analysis

Spot History Displays a genes pattern of expression over all the slides in the Arabidopsis NASCarray database
Two gene scatter plot Compares 2 genes expression levels as a scatter plot over all the slides in the Arabidopsis NASCarray database
Gene swinger Shows in which experiments a gene of interest changed the most
Genevestigator Analysis tools for Arabidopsis affy data

Protein Sequence Analysis

SMART Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool. Analyse protein sequences for known domains
PROSITE Database of protein families and domains
Pfam Analyse protein sequence for functional domains
CPHmodels Predicts protein structure
COILS Predicts coiled regions in a protein sequence
TMpred Predicts transmembrane domains
SignalP Predicts signal peptide cleavage sites

Pathway analysis

KEGG Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes. Includes database of pathways including metabolic, regulatory, disease, circadium etc.
AraCyc Arabidopsis biochemical pathways. Can overlay transcriptomics, proteomics data.