Bioinformatics Exam 1 (2024) || Questions & Answers (Graded A+)
Bioinformatics Exam 1 (2024) || Questions & Answers (Graded A+)
Which of the following programming languages would work best to write a query to retrieve data from a relational database? - ANSWER - SQL
Which of the following typ...
, Bioinformatics Exam 1 (2024) ||
Questions & Answers (Graded A+)
Which of the following programming languages would work best to write a query to
retrieve data from a relational database? - ANSWER - SQL
Which of the following types of genes can be accurately predicted in genomic DNA
sequence by simply searching for long open reading frames? - ANSWER - Not
intron-containing genes, not tRNA genes, not protein coding genes, so none of the
above.
Write the symbol in Perl that best fits the following descriptions:
Array variable
Assignment operator
Comment - ANSWER - Array variable: @
Assignment operator: +=
Comment: $
The worst case run-time efficiency of the Binary search algorithm is O(log(n)). True
or false? - ANSWER - True
Which of the following scoring matrices would work best for searching for divergent
sequence homologs using BLAST? - ANSWER - BLOSUM45
Which of the following statements about the Smith-Waterman sequence alignment
method are correct? - ANSWER - Traceback begins at the maximum scoring
element in the matrix
The size of the sequence database searched by BLAT will affect the calculated E-
values reported for each BLAST HSP or hit. True or false? - ANSWER - True
Which of the following describes one of the steps in the ClustalW multiple sequence
alignment algorithm? - ANSWER - Construct a similarity or guide tree
PSI-BLAST uses both a query sequence and a pattern as input, true or false? -
ANSWER - False
Provide the name of an alternative secondary structure prediction method that has
better prediction accuracy (Q3) than the Chou-Fasman method. - ANSWER -
Multiple sequence alignment, GOR, Neural Network [PHD], any of these.
Which of the following prediction methods would work best to predict the 3D
structure of a protein that has a sequence homolog of known structure? - ANSWER -
Homology Modeling
what is hogwegs definition of bioinformatics? - ANSWER - the study of informatic
processes in biotic systems
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