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Shane - Lecture 3 Flashcards

1
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How many genes do human have?

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22,000 genes

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2
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How long did it take to sequence the full human genome?

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About 10 years

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3
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How much of your genetic material is the exact same as a random stranger?

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99% of it is identical

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4
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Why did it take so long to sequence the human genome?

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Because we have 3 billion base pairs but only 22,000 genes

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5
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What is computational gene prediction?

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Trying to find what genes are found on a sequence of DNA i.e. what region of the uncharacterised sequence codes for proteins

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What information can be found via computational gene prediction?
(6)

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What regions codes for protein

Which DNA strand encodes the gene

Which reading frame is used

Where does the gene start and end

Where are the exon-intron boundaries in eukaryotes

Where are the regulatory sequences for that gene

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7
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What often acts as the start codon?

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ATG

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8
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What are the benefits of gene finding on prokaryotes?
(3)

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Small genomes

High coding density

No introns

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9
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What is the gene level accuracy of gene finding of prokaryotes?

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99%

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10
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What are the characteristics of eukaryotic genes?

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Large genomes

Low coding density

Intron/exon structure

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11
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What is the gene level accuracy of gene finding on eukaryotic genes?

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About 50% accuracy

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12
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What are the problems associated with gene finding on prokaryotes?
(3)

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Overlapping open reading frames

Very short genes - protein might be only a few dozen amino acids

Finding transcription start sites (TSS) and promoters

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13
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What is a TSS?

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The point at which RNA polymerase starts trascribing

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14
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What is a TSS?

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The point at which RNA polymerase starts transcribing

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15
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What are the four ways we can predict the location of genes in genomic sequences?

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Searching by signal

Searching by content

Similarity-based methods

Comparative genomics

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16
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What is it called when searching by signal and content is done simultaneously?

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Ab initio or intrinsic methods

17
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What are intrinsic methods of gene prediction used for?

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For looking for very specific features associated with genes

18
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What is it called if similarity-based methods and comparative genomics are used together?

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Extrinsic methods

19
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What is meant by searching by signal gene prediction?

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The analysis of a sequence signal involved in gene specification

20
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What is meant by searching by content signal gene prediction?

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Codon bias correlated with coding regions

21
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What is meant by similarity based methods of gene prediction?

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Use of similarity to known annotated sequences

22
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What is meant by comparative genomics?

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Aligning genomic sequences from different species

23
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What is meant by extrinsic methods of gene prediction?
(2)

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Is our unknown gene similar to other known gene sequences

This relies on pre-existing gene information

24
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How does ab initio gene finding work?
(4)

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We input a DNA string of letters (A, C, G, T)

We get out an annotation of the string of letters showing for every nucleotide whether it is coding or non-coding

Red = stop and start codons
Blue = exons
Black = introns

Identifies coding exons of protein-coding genes

25
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Give an example of one of the most common stop codons

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TAA

26
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How does searching by signal work?

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There are four different signal found at different sites:
- translation start codon ATG
- 5’ splice donor site
- 3’ splice acceptor site
- translation stop codon - TAA, TAG, TGA

27
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List the three stop codons

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TAA
TAG
TGA

28
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What can be used to look up the donor and acceptor splice sites of a sequence?

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Consensus sequences can be used to find splice sites

29
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What can be used to help identify a stop signal?

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The Cs and Ts found running up to the stop

30
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What does searching by content do?

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Accurate prediction of exons dependant on content-based features -> can identify the type of exon

31
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What are the three types of exons?

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Initial exons

Internal exons

Terminal exons

32
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What are initial exons?

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Open reading frames delimited by a start site and 5’ donor site

33
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What are internal exons

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Open reading frames delimited by a 3’ acceptor site and 5’ donor site

34
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What are terminal exons?

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Open reading frames delimited by 3’ acceptor site and stop codon

35
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Where is codon bias mostly found?

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Found in exons more so than introns

36
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What is codon bias?

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The uneven usage of amino acids -> some are more frequently found and some are not

37
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How can codon bias be useful?

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It can be used to differentiate between coding and non-coding regions as some codons might only be found in coding regions etc

38
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What are coding statistics?

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A function that for a given DNA sequence computes a likelihood that the sequence is coding for a protein

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