[BiO BB] query

[Philipp Pagel]

	Hi!

> Is there any way to find the genes involved in particular biological
> process. for eg. apoptosis.

Depends. Not in the sense that some magic algorithm derives the function
directly fom the sequence. 

BUT: There are manually annotated genomes which means that human expert
curators have tried to assign a functional category to each gene of the
organism. Our institute provides such data for Saccharomyces cerevisiae
(and a few other organisms):

http://mips.gsf.de/proj/yeast/CYGD/db/index.html

especially:

http://pedant.gsf.de/cgi-bin/wwwfly.pl?Set=Saccharomyces_cerevisiae&Page=index

watch out for FUNCAT (= functional category). Explanations here:

http://mips.gsf.de/proj/yeast/catalogues/funcat/index.html

You can find the same kind of analysis for a number of other genomes
here (http://pedant.gsf.de).  For most of them the FUNCATs were assigned
by the computer based on homology - manual annotations can be identified
by the "MANUAL FUNCAT" link (as opposed to the "AUTOMATIC FUNCAT"). 

Another aproach you should look at is Gene Ontology:

http://www.geneontology.org/

cu
	Philipp

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