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DBT-JRF brief notes [Bioinformatics] PART -1

 Facts and information about Bioinformatics especially for DBT-JRF:  [Part -1]

These notes are only for the students who are not interested in Bioinformatics but want to solve and memorize the common questions in DBT-JRF. 

 DOT BLOT: Pairwise sequence similarity

 


Protein database:


Try to recall the names and the subcategories. 

 E- value:


 BLAST:


Have a look at the difference between local and global alignment. 

If a nucleotide sequence encoding a protein is known and a homologous protein to be identified, --> the best analysis tool is BLASTx.

Read the following:




 Substitution Matrix: [Along with PAM and BLOSUM]


These notes are based on the PYQs. 





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