Links Page

Here are links to web sites that you will find useful, or essential, to complete the course. If there are any broken links, or you want another link available, please let me know.

Information about Group A Streptococcus (GAS)

• TXTBK1 | TXT2 (online texts); PICTURES (of GAS)
• GENOMES (web site about the Strep. genome);
• SEQ PNAS (sequence of S.pyogenes)
• Streptococcus taxonomy (recent review)
• CRC for Vaccine Technology-GAS Vaccine | Dr Kadaba Sriprakash

GAS emm typing and DNA sequences

GENBANK: GenBank/NCBI | BLAST | PubMed | microbial genomes

Ribosome Database (RDP) 16S rRNA sequence identification

Interpreting sequence chromatograms: tutorial here

Editing and analysing sequence chromatogram files.

• FinchTV (OS X, Win)
• Chromas-lite (v2.01 is free, Win; v2.3 and ChromasPro are time limited demos)
• Baser (free but registration. Fully functional, Windows)
• Sequencher DEMO (free with registration. Is unable to save/copy. OS X/Windows)
• Geneious (does most things during the free trial period. Recommended by a class member)

DNA/PROTEIN analysis software:

• Overlap forward and reverse emm sequences: CAP3 | egassembler
• ALIGN SEQS |clustal at Japan | France | EBI | BCM |
• http://bioinformatics.org/sms2/translate.html (translate DNA sequence and many other programs! Web based)
• Sequence analysis (free OS X), CLC Workbench (free, Windows/OSX/Linux)

Any others or links that you find useful, let me know and I can put them up here.

Dr Mike Dyall-Smith, Lab 3.07, ext 45693 (8344 5693) [my home web page]