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MEBI 534 , Autumn 2007
Biology and Informatics

Genomics

Assignment

A. Read the following articles
GenBank
BLAST
Gene Ontology

B.  Provide written answers to the following questions, to be turned in prior to the Wed class, as per these instructions

  1. Name  two programs provided by  NCBI for submitting sequence data to Genbank.
  2. What is the difference between sequence identity, similarity and homology?  Which of these does BLAST measure?
  3. Describe the basic BLAST algorithm.
  4. What is gene annotation?
  5. What are the three annotation domains covered by the GO ontology?







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 Last Updated:
10/22/07

Contact the instructor at: brinkley@u.washington.edu