13. Amino acid sequence data

Documentary sources on this subject [1] not only describe amino acid sequences, but also offer tools for manipulating the data (sequencing, comparison, degree of similarity, etc.) for identification or structural elucidation purposes: libraries of programs are associated with the reference data. The main sources are often resembled on the same server (database or Internet) or on a CD-Rom. JICST and J. Hopkins University, Baltimore, produce a database of international human genome sequence data (GDB genome), accessible via the Internet.

The Registry Numbers (RN) of sequences indexed in Chemical Abstracts can be searched on the CAS Registry File by clone designation, gene name, organism, acid code groups, sequence length. Searches can be made in exact form, by family, globally, or sequence by sequence....