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PatternHunter was used to compare the Human Genome (3
Gbase) against 16 million reads of the Mouse Genome (3
coverage, 9 Gbase total). It took only 21 days using a
Pentium 3/700 MHz desktop computer with 1G of RAM. On the
same machine and at the same sensitivity, Blast would take
years.

What do you think are the more interesting areas of bioinformatics?

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What is the product of the irrational roots of the equation (2x-1)(2x-3)(2x-5)(2x-7)=9?

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How do you find the most recent human sequence data in the data bases inorder to determine physical maps?

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Does multidrug resistance (mdr) arise by activation of stable genes encoding drug efflux pumps or by mutations of genes encoding other types of transporters in bacterial pathogens?

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How did you get into the field of bioinformatics?

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what is an active ? (UML)

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How to Insert Genomic DNA into yeast ?

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How to Count number of nucleotide substitutions ?

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Draw the E-R diagram for the database of a departmental store having the following relational database scheme Employees(e-no, address) Department(d-name) work-n(e-no, d-name) Looking-after(d-name, e-no) Item (item-no, brand-name, model-no, cost-price, sale-price)

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What is protein sequencing?

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Suppose the Blast search returned 100 hits. Of these, 17 were false positives and we knew that there were 165 sequences in the database which should have returned a hit with our sequence. How many false negatives were there, and what is the sensitivity and selectivity of Blast in this instance?

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What are the limitations of blotting techniques?

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Are all members of transporter families confined to a particular organelle or to the plasma membrane, or are some family members found throughout cellular compartments in eukaryotes?

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How to find a sequence of dna molecule?

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what is a qi number?

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