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Wide Web Discovering Bioinformatics: a protein in the World Wide
Web Sami Khuri, Natascha Khuri, Alexander Picker, Aidan Budd,
Sophie Chabanis-Davidson and Julia Willingale-Theune In this
activity students can search for information about a protein
using databases of biological information on the World Wide Web.
These databases collect and store information about genes and
proteins (sequence, structure, expression) about human inherited
diseases for which the genetic cause is known, scientific
literature, etc. Many databases that are accessible via the
World Wide Web offer so-called 'Query Interfaces': special web
pages on which you can enter and combine search terms and
restrict them to special sections or fields of the database. In
a text search you can enter a search term, (the name of a
protein, a disease, a cell type) which is subsequently compared
to the textual content of the database. You can also compare the
sequence of a protein or gene to