BIOINFORMATICS Flashcards
1
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what does BLAST do
A
Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
finds regions of local similarity between inputted sequences
when you input a sequence, BLAST will compare it to the entire NCBI sequence database
2
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what does clustal W do
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3
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what is PDB
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4
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PDB
5
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Clustal W
6
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BLAST
7
Q
difference between homology and similarity
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8
Q
what is the identity score in BLAST
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9
Q
the E-value
A
basically the value of how much background noise there is
10
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what is the use of multiple sequence alignments
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