An Introduction to Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the use of extensive, online databases of nucleic acid and protein information to answer several kinds of questions in biochemistry and genetics. For example:
- I have sequenced a protein, but I don’t know its function. What similar proteins have already been described in the literature, and what are their functions?
- What DNA sequence gave rise to this protein? Where is this DNA located in the organism’s genome? What genes are around it?
- What literature has been published on almost any topic in biochemistry and molecular biology?
- What can I learn about the evolutionary relationships of organisms by comparing their amino acid and nucleotide sequences?
Exercises
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Protein Files
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DNA Files
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Exercise E
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