Module 1: Lesson 3

Question 1

What is 4th paradigm science?

Answer 1

a new method of pushing forward the frontiers of knowledge, enabled by new technologies for gathering, manipulating, analyzing, and displaying data.

Question 2

What is another term for 4th paradigm science?

Answer 2

data science

Question 3

What are different genome data reference resources?

Answer 3

raw data, genomes, annotated genomes, and genome products (genes, features, etc.)

Question 4

What is the central dogma of bioinformatics and genomics?

Answer 4

genome –> transcriptome –> proteome

Question 5

What are the three major public genome databases?

Answer 5

EMBL, GenBank, and DDBJ

Question 6

What is an accession number?

Answer 6

a label that is used to identify a sequence. It is a string of letter and/or numbers that correspond to a molecular sequence.

Question 7

What does GQuery integrate?

Answer 7

scientific literature, DNA and protein sequence databases, 3D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes.