New Tutorial Suite on SMART Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool



OpenHelix today announced the availability of a tutorial suite on the SMART bioinformatics resource (http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/). SMART, created by the Bork Lab at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), contains information on hundreds of domains, and provides extensive annotations, phylogenetic analyses, and links to relevant resources about the domains.

The tutorial suite, available for single purchase or through a low-priced yearly subscription to all OpenHelix tutorials, contains a narrated, self-run, online tutorial, slides, handouts and exercises. With the tutorial, researchers can quickly learn to effectively use this resource that helps them understand the evolution of function within multi-domain proteins. SMART brings together several functions that a researcher would otherwise have to perform separately.

The tutorial will teach users to:

- perform various text and sequence searches

- find proteins based on their domain architecture

- browse for key information about the evolutionary history and relationships of domains of interest to your research

To find out more about this and other tutorial suites visit www.openhelix.com.

About OpenHelix

OpenHelix, LLC, (www.openhelix.com) provides the genomics knowledge you need when you need it. OpenHelix currently provides online self-run tutorials and on-site training for institutions and companies on the most powerful and popular free, web based, publicly accessible bioinformatics resources. In addition, OpenHelix is contracted by resource providers to provide comprehensive, long-term training and outreach programs.





New Tutorial Suite on SMART Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool