Introduction to resources in molecular genetics.
Perhaps no other discipline has experienced as dramatic an information explosion in recent years as has the field of molecular genetics. While the flood of scholarly publications stemming from this research has been extensively indexed in MEDLINE, a number of new databases have been developed that provide direct access to the primary sequence data as well as to curated, reference information. A select group of these databases, including NCBI's GenBank, LocusLink, RefSeq, OMIM, and Genes and Disease, is examined. Following a brief description of each database, a proposed instructional program for their integration into an undergraduate genetics course at the University of Vermont is described.
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