bioinformatics

Question 1

you want to find if a nucleotide codes ofr a certain protein, which tool would you use?
a. blastp
b. blastX
c. tblastn
d. blastn
e. tblastx

Answer 1

blast x (nucleotide -> protein)

Question 2

you want to see if a protein is produced by other bacteria by looking at their genome sequence, what tool would you use?
a. blastp
b. blastX
c. tblastn
d. blastn
e. tblastx

Answer 2

tblastn, which is using a protein to find a nucleotife sequence

Question 3

you have an amino acid sequence fasta file (the sequence has all the letters of the alphabet) to represent a protein, what tool should you use?
a. blastp
b. blastX
c. tblastn
d. blastn
e. tblastx

Answer 3

blastp tool

Question 4

a tool that is used to see if a bacteria’s DNA matches with another
a. blastp
b. blastX
c. tblastn
d. blastn
e. tblastx

Answer 4

blastn (nucleotide to nucleotide)