Online Bioinformatics from Invitrogen

Life in the lab just gets easier and easier. I’m just slightly envious of how much more efficient it is now to find detailed information on genes in order to perform experiments.

Invitrogen has introduced the iGene, which is part of a bioinformatics platform, that makes it possible to search for reagents. A sample search for the SCN91A gene for pain in humans turns up the oligo IDs, percent GC content, recommended negative controls, and Entrez Nucleotide entries.

Invitrogen developed its suite of online bioinformatics solutions – including the iProtocol™ Online Library, the iPath™ Online Bioatlas, and the iGene gene or protein search engine resource – to simplify the transition from experimental planning to selecting optimal research products. By integrating all known human, mouse and rat genes and proteins into one database, the iGene search engine helps scientists quickly filter through more than 250,000 products related to their gene or protein of interest. Researchers can search using several criteria including keyword, gene accession number, gene symbol, or batch search to find all of the antibody, assay, protein, cloning, qPCR or RNAi products available for their specific experimental needs. Search results also link to external resources at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and to relevant signaling and metabolic pathway maps on the iPath™ Online Bioatlas. To explore this resource, visit http://www.invitrogen.com/iGene.

In my day, we had to trek through snow for miles uphill to get to the nearest file warehouse where we looked up sequence data one base at a time.

Medical News Today, December 15, 2006

Tags: genetics, genes, dna, scn9a, invitrogen, igene, diseases, illness, health, experiments