Csc334 DT Notes

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

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