生物奥赛培训 生物信息学.ppt

* The header of a database record contains a lot of information which was entered manually, including a description of the sequence, its organism of origin, associated literature references and cross-links to related sequences in other databases. A unique identifier of the record is given at the beginning of the entry, in the LOCUS field in Genbank (or the ID field in EMBL, DDBJ, SWISS-PROT etc). This identifier was originally designed to be a meaningful abbreviation encapsulating the function of the sequence, but with the explosion in database size it has lost much of its usefulness and is re