Bionformatics Resources

General Bioinformatics Resources

Depending on your project, you may find some of the following resources useful - please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list, just a starting point for your work - there are many more helpful resources out there. Feel free to discuss with Dr. Feeney if you have any questions.

• How to Access Data from Public Databases

• Links to some key public databases.

• Get Started with GitHub documentation

• Galaxy Video Lectures

Useful tools/websites

• Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL)

• ExPASy resource portal

• JalView (multiple sequence alignment editing, visualisation and analysis)

• PyMol (3D molecular visualisation)

Streptomyces/actinomycetes resources

• StrepDB

• Tables of Streptomyces coelicolor reciprocal BLASTP hits

• antiSMASH

• ActinoBase

Phage resources

• Actinobacteriophage Database

• Phage tutorial 1

• Phage tutorial 2

• Phage tutorial 3

• Phage tutorial 4

actDES resources

• Schniete, J. K., Selem-Mojica, N., Birke, A. S., Cruz-Morales, P., Hunter, I. S., Barona-Gomez, F., & Hoskisson, P. A. (2021). ActDES - a curated Actinobacterial Database for Evolutionary Studies. Microbial genomics, 7(1), mgen000498. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000498

• e-seminar explaining actDES

• actDES GitHub repository

• actDES FigShare page

• actDES Python script and YouTube walkthrough