1. Biology Workbench Introduction

2. What is it used for? It is a web-browser to use bioinformatics tools to analyze and visualize nucleotide and protein sequences comparatively between different species

3. Account set-up Go to the following website to get a login name and password: –http://workbench.sdsc.eduhttp://workbench.sdsc.edu

4. Tools Session tools Protein tools Nucleic acid tools Alignment tools Structure tools

5. Session tools When you a start a new project, start a new session.

6. Protein and Nucleic acid tools Allows you to select and download nucleic acid or protein sequences into the workbench for comparative analysis, such as alignment of sequences among different species.

9. Alignment tools Ndjinn-Multiple database search is used for searching as many databases as you wish (databases: http://bioquest.org/bioinformatics/module/tutorials/Ho w3.2/databases.html) http://bioquest.org/bioinformatics/module/tutorials/Ho w3.2/databases.html