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** Phylogenetic and classification methods
 
** Phylogenetic and classification methods
 
** Display tools
 
** Display tools
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* Some bioinformatic tasks (could be labs)
 
* Some bioinformatic tasks (could be labs)
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** finding orthologous and paralogous genes
 
** finding orthologous and paralogous genes
 
** finding repeats
 
** finding repeats
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* where to find protein sequences?
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** PubMed, but can be confusing
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** ExPASy (created by Aimos Baroch)
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* The FASTA Format:
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>  description line
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ACGTTTAGGGCTTTAAAA
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AAAGGGTCGATTATTTTA
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* ?

Revision as of 18:20, 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


  •  ?