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

Answer Posted / tina

I would 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.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 1 No



Post New Answer       View All Answers


Please Help Members By Posting Answers For Below Questions

what is an active ? (UML)

1913


can u give me an example of a project you were involved with that illustrates your interest and skills in bringing people together?

1600


What are the current challenges in the Pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors?

1740


What two possibilities are there to describe how gene fragments may have evolved?

1718


What is the idea behind ?weighting? sequences in the package CLUSTAL W for multiple alignment? How are these weights calculated?

1530






what is a qi number?

1824


Describe the aim of microarray data analysis?

1961


How will you value a biotech company as opposed to a consumer products company?

578


How to find flanking region ?

1949


What is C-compliator?

1807


Suppose you used the NCBI Blast server to look for a match to a fruit-fly gene. Suppose further that the best alignment contained this section of an alignment: Hit from database: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXNFSTSQ User sequence: SLEAEAAPASISPSNFSSSQ What do the Xs signify?

1498


How to find a sequence of dna molecule?

1612


Explain about needleman-wunsch algorithm?

1775


Define perl and clustalW problem?

1984


Did bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes exchange transporter genes appreciably during the past two billion years?

651