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you had 1,500 base pair pieces of random DNA and you
wanted to know how many of them had homology to known
genes, what would you do to determine that?

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you had 1,500 base pair pieces of random DNA and you wanted to know how many of them had homology ..

Answer / jomy peter thomas

just do blastn and count the number of sequences showing
more than equal to 30% similarity with the known sequences
in the databases.this wud give u th no. of homologous sequences.

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you had 1,500 base pair pieces of random DNA and you wanted to know how many of them had homology ..

Answer / guest

use a BLASTX search against a known protein database - such
MCBI's NR database. I would then sort them to determine how
many were unique.

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