Everything about Sequence Database totally explained
In the field of
bioinformatics, a
sequence database is a large collection of
DNA,
protein, or other sequences stored on a computer. A database can include sequences from only one organism, as in databases including all the proteins in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, or it can include sequences from all organisms whose DNA has been sequenced.
Search issues
Sequence databases can be searched using a variety of methods. The most common is probably searching for a sequence similar to a certain target protein or gene whose sequence is already known to the user. The
BLAST program is a method of this type.
Many inputs create inconsistencies
A major problem with all the large genetic sequence databases is that records are deposited in them from a wide range of sources, from individual researchers to large genome sequencing centers. As a result, the sequences themselves, and especially the biological annotations attached to these sequences, vary tremendously in quality. Also there's much redundancy, as multiple labs often submit numerous sequences that are identical, or nearly identical, to others in the databases.
Many annotations are based not on laboratory experiments, but on the results of sequence similarity searches for previously-annotated sequences. Of course, once a sequence has been annotated based on similarity to others, and itself deposited in the database, it can also become the basis for future annotations. This leads to the
transitive annotation problem because there may be several such annotation transfers by sequence similarity between a particular database record and actual
wet lab experimental information. Therefore, one must always regard the biological annotations in major sequence databases with a considerable degree of skepticism, unless they can be verified by reference to published papers describing high-quality experimental data, or at least by reference to a human-curated sequence database.
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