Databases
As a consequence of a world-wide research effort, a considerable amount of data is being generated.
These data are stored in several databases :
- Genome : humans, bacteria, yeast, flies…
- Proteins : SwissProt,…
- Patterns : Prosite,…
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These data need processing tools
- BLAST : Heuristic sequence comparison
- ScanProsite,...
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The network is used intensively : Internet, WWW