Amino acids are organic compounds that serve as the building blocks of proteins and play crucial roles in various biological processes.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that combines biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics to study and analyze biological data.

A database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically.

DNA, also known as deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning, and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to molecular biology research and is supported by 29 member states, one prospect member state, and one associate member state.

The GenBank sequence database is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is a part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), which is a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A nucleotide is a basic structural unit of DNA and RNA.