Category: Lab Notes

Discover the four levels of protein structure: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. Learn how amino acid sequences form complex three-dimensional proteins and influence biological function.

Discover the history and development of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), from its establishment in 1971 to its evolution into a global scientific archive supporting structural biology, medicine, bioinformatics, and drug discovery.

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a global open-access resource containing three-dimensional structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and other biological macromolecules. Discover its history, structure determination methods, applications, and importance in modern science.

Discover how UniProt describes protein function using functional annotations, experimental evidence, computational prediction, Gene Ontology, catalytic activity, domains, localization, pathways, and literature.

Protein annotation in UniProt adds biological meaning to protein sequences through information about function, domains, localization, modifications, variants, evidence, literature, and other molecular characteristics.

TrEMBL is the unreviewed component of UniProtKB, providing extensive protein sequence coverage through computational annotation. Learn how TrEMBL uses automatic annotation, sequence similarity, protein domains, evidence, and other computational approaches to characterize newly available protein sequences.

Swiss-Prot is the reviewed and manually curated component of UniProtKB. Learn how Swiss-Prot provides protein sequences, functional annotations, evidence, scientific references, sequence features, domains, modifications, and other biological information.

UniProt is a major protein knowledge resource providing information on protein sequences, functions, annotations, structures, domains, taxonomy, proteomes, and scientific evidence. Explore the major components of UniProt and understand how researchers use this essential bioinformatics resource.

Conservation biology focuses on protecting biodiversity, species, habitats, ecosystems, and genetic diversity. Explore its major areas, methods, challenges, and importance.

Human biology explores the structure, function, development, genetics, evolution, and health of the human body. Discover the major areas of human biology in this comprehensive overview.

Environmental biology explores the relationship between living organisms and their environment. Discover its major aspects, from ecology and biodiversity to conservation, pollution, climate change, and sustainability.

Reproductive biology is the study of how organisms reproduce, produce gametes, transmit genetic information, develop offspring, and evolve diverse reproductive strategies.

Marine biology is the study of marine organisms and their relationships with ocean environments, covering marine biodiversity, ecology, physiology, evolution, conservation, and ocean science.

Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, exploring how animals communicate, learn, reproduce, interact socially, adapt to their environments, and evolve.

Taxonomy is the branch of biology concerned with identifying, naming, describing, and classifying organisms. It provides a framework for understanding biodiversity and evolutionary relationships among living and extinct organisms.