C5. Find, retrieve, and organize various types of biological data. Given the numerous and varied datasets currently being generated from all of the ‘omics fields, students should develop the facility to: identify appropriate data repositories; navigate and retrieve data from these databases; and organize data relevant to their area of study in flat files or small local stand-alone databases.
- Navigate and retrieve data from genome browsers
- Retrieve data from protein and genome databases (e.g., PDB, UniProt, NCBI)
- Store and interrogate small datasets using spreadsheets or delimited text files.