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* From Wikipedia entry on BLAST
 
* From Wikipedia entry on BLAST
 
::Examples of other questions that researchers use BLAST to answer are:
 
::Examples of other questions that researchers use BLAST to answer are:
::Which bacterial species have a protein that is related in lineage to a certain protein with known amino-acid sequence?
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:::Which bacterial species have a protein that is related in lineage to a certain protein with known amino-acid sequence?
:: Where does a certain sequence of DNA originate?
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::: Where does a certain sequence of DNA originate?
:: What other genes encode proteins that exhibit structures or motifs such as ones that have just been determined?
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::: What other genes encode proteins that exhibit structures or motifs such as ones that have just been determined?

Revision as of 19:23, 7 July 2008

Notes taken by DT, Summer of 08

Source Bioinformatics for Dummies

  • Bioinformatic tools (p. 27) mainly fit in 3 categories
    • Sequence alignment
    • Phylogenetic and classification methods
    • Display tools


  • Some bioinformatic tasks (could be labs)
    • finding which genomes are available
    • analyzing sequences in relation to specific genomes
    • displaying genomes
    • ORFing: parsing a microbial genome sequence
    • GenScan: parsing a eukaryotic genome sequence
    • finding orthologous and paralogous genes
    • finding repeats


  • where to find protein sequences?
    • PubMed, but can be confusing
    • ExPASy (created by Aimos Baroch)


  • The FASTA Format:
>  description line
ACGTTTAGGGCTTTAAAA
AAAGGGTCGATTATTTTA


Aligning Sequences

  • Use BLAST.
  • Find paper explaining why aligning sequences can be useful.
  • From Wikipedia entry on BLAST
Examples of other questions that researchers use BLAST to answer are:
Which bacterial species have a protein that is related in lineage to a certain protein with known amino-acid sequence?
Where does a certain sequence of DNA originate?
What other genes encode proteins that exhibit structures or motifs such as ones that have just been determined?