Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter E

These Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter - E.It can boost vocabulary in bioinformatics. It can also enhance basic knowledge of Bioinformatics.

1. What is "E value"?

E value (Expect value) - when performing a BLAST search, you will obtain an E-value for each sequence that is retrieved.
An E-value can be thought of as the probability that two sequences are similar to each other by chance.
Therefore E-values are best when they are small (e.g. 1 x 10^-12).

2. What is "EC number"?

EC number - It is Enzyme Commission number a numerical classification scheme for enzymes based on the chemical reactions they catalyze.

3. What is full form of "EBI"?

EBI, European Bioinformatics Institute the European counterpart to the NCBI in the U.S.

4. What is full form of "EMBL"?

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, this acronym refers to the nucleotide database that the laboratory maintains.

5. What is "Entrez "?

Entrez - It is the NCBI database querying system that is similar to SRS at the EBL.

6. What is "Epitope"?

Epitope - It is a part of an antigen that is recognized by the immune system.

7. What is "EST"?

EST - It is an expressed sequence tag a short subset of a cDNA sequence.

8. What is "Expansionist"?

Expansionist - It is a person who takes a systems approach to understanding complex, interconnected parts working as a whole; opposite of a reductionist.

9. What is "ExPASy"?

ExPASy a server maintained by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. It is the home of SWISS-PROT, the annotated protein database.

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