20.6 - Sequencing Projects Flashcards
Computational biology, bioinformatics, and genomics Analysing genomes to study human health and disease Studying evolutionary relationships through genome comparison The relationship between genomics and proteomics
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What is bioinformatics?
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Developing tools to analyse biological datasets
2
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What is computational biology?
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Using bioinformatics tools to model biological systems
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What is genomics?
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Studying genomes using DNA sequencing and computational biology
4
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How are human genomes analysed?
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Whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing
5
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What are single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)?
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Single-base variations in genome
6
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What is DNA barcoding?
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Comparing DNA sequence to database of barcode sequences
7
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What are the advantages of DNA barcoding?
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Fast sequencing
8
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What is genomics?
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Study of genomes
9
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What is proteomics?
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Study of proteome (complete set of proteins)
10
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Why does the number of proteins exceed the number of genes?
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Alternative splicing
