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Conclusion

• In this first chapter, you have already quite actively learned and practiced the most

important technique in bioinformatics, namely sequence analysis, especially of protein

sequences. Modern molecular biology generates sequences in abundance. The steady

increase of databases (NCBI, GenBank, Swiss-Prot) allows one to quickly find out

which previous sequences are close to this new sequence by sequence similarity

(BLAST tool). Domain databases and analyses allow to dissect a protein into its folding

units, each of which carries a specific molecular function. RNA and DNA sequences

are also quickly assigned a function through sequence comparisons.

1.2  Protein Analysis Is Easy with the Right Tool