SEARCHING DATABASES
Bibliographic
1.NCBI PubMed/Medline
Sequence
1.NCBI-Entrez
2.EBI-SRS
3.DDBJ-SRS
Integrated
Entrez/PubMed
Entrez is a set of tightly linked databases, including nucleic sequences, protein sequences and MEDLINE. It has a very nice interface and is a very powerful and useful system. It has links to itself! In other words when you find an interesting nucleic sequence entry, you can quickly find others like it, the corresponding protein entry and abstracts of papers describing it .
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/
You know SOMETHING
Search and Compare
You've been scooped.
You've discovered a new member of a gene family.
Your sequence shares just some domains/motifs   
         with known genes.
Your sequence is completely novel.
You know NOTHING
Just Search
www