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*I looked at the other file formats and found that my computer had trouble opening many of them. For those that did open, they were often difficult to read and the normal website proved to be the easiest interface to work with. However, I recognized a lot of the code in the html format and see how that would be useful if I was importing the data into another database or working with it in the putty command line.

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:During this exercise, I feel like I developed a very basic understanding of how UniProt is structured and learned how to navigate through other databases. I feel like it was very useful to go through each section, but only a very basic level of information was gained. It was a valuable first learning experience, but more in depth work is needed to really understand how the databases work and what they can be used for.

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:The purpose of this exercise was to become familiar with using biological databases to find information about genes, particularly in UniProt which, looking at other databases and the literature papers, appears to be one of the leading protein databases. One thing I was surprised about was how linked the databases were. UniProt seemed to be less concerned with actually providing information as it was to referring people to original research and more specialized databases. One thing that seems very useful was a list of variants, mutations, and phenotypes that can show how minor changes/mutations to the gene alter the organism. One thing that I really don't understand yet is the individual specialties of the different websites. I saw some information appeared in most of the databases, but some of it seemed more specialized and even appeared differently in the same type of databases (ex: EMBL and RefSeq contained a lot of the same information, but exhibited overlap and specialization). I feel a lot of this confusion will be clarified as I work with these databases more and in a more focused manner.

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::During this exercise, I feel like I developed a very basic understanding of how UniProt is structured and learned how to navigate through other databases. I feel like it was very useful to go through each section, but only a very basic level of information was gained. It was a valuable first learning experience, but more in depth work is needed to really understand how the databases work and what they can be used for.

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::The purpose of this exercise was to become familiar with using biological databases to find information about genes, particularly in UniProt which, looking at other databases and the literature papers, appears to be one of the leading protein databases. One thing I was surprised about was how linked the databases were. UniProt seemed to be less concerned with actually providing information as it was to referring people to original research and more specialized databases. One thing that seems very useful was a list of variants, mutations, and phenotypes that can show how minor changes/mutations to the gene alter the organism. One thing that I really don't understand yet is the individual specialties of the different websites. I saw some information appeared in most of the databases, but some of it seemed more specialized and even appeared differently in the same type of databases (ex: EMBL and RefSeq contained a lot of the same information, but exhibited overlap and specialization). I feel a lot of this confusion will be clarified as I work with these databases more and in a more focused manner.

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