uses of DNA sequencing Flashcards
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bioinformatics
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- using computer software to analyse biological data
- algorithms, statistical tests and models
- makes analysis of huge amounts of data more useful
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computational biology
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- uses info from bioinformatics to make a computer model of scenarios
- eg predicting 3D structures of proteins
- how organisms are related to each other in terms of evolutionary terms
3
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genome wide comparisons
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- currently looking for faster and cheaper means of producing whole genome sequences
4
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human genome project
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- comparisons of sequences led to knowledge on DNA sequences involved in genetic diseases
- usually complex and controlled by multiple genes and other physiological risk factors
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analysing pathogen genomes
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- identify sources of infection
- identify resistant strains of bacteria
- track progress and mutations of pathogens
- identify areas of genome that provide new drugs and vaccines against pathogens
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DNA barcoding
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- identifies new species
- makes it cheaper and faster by looking at the mitochondrial DNA which codes for cytochrome C oxidase and this differs in each species
- decide if something is a new species