Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter G

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

1. What is "GA II Illumina sequencing platform"?

GA II Illumina sequencing platform that generates 40 Mb sequence per run with paired read lengths of 70 bp.

2. What is "Gap"?

Gap - It is in sequencing a segment of DNA that has not been sequenced but is flanked by sequenced DNA. Also used as a synonym for insertion or deletion in sequence alignment.

3. What is "GenBank"?

GenBank - It wass developed and housed at NCBI, GenBank is the U.S. repository for all DNA and protein sequences.

4. What is "Gene ID"?

Gene ID - It is a unique alphanumeric identifier assigned to a gene.

5. What is "Gene ontology"?

Gene ontology - It is a collaborative effort of investigators to unify and standardize terms associated with the role a gene or protein plays in an organism.
Represented model organisms include Drosophila melanogaster, Saccharomyces cervisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Mus musculus, Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabditis elegans, Rattus norvegicus and Dictyostelium discoideum.

6. What is "Genome"?

Genome - It is the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or organism.

7. What is "Genome browser"?

Genome browser - It is a graphical interface for display of information from a biological database for genomic data.

8. What is "Genomic colocation"?

Genomic colocation - It is a comparison of genome structure between two or more genomes.

9. What is "Genomics"?

Genomics - It is a vague term that encompasses the study of reference genome sequences, variations within a species’ genome, DNA microarrays, circuits and systems biology. Some people include wider areas such as proteomics, metabolomics, etc., under the genomics umbrella.

10. What is "GFF"?

GFF - It is a generic feature format a data format for identifying the features of a sequence that involves data featured in a tab-delimited file with one feature per line to enable text manipulation and data analysis tools that work with tabular data.

Basic Terms in Bioinformatics=>

A.. B.. C.. D.. E.. F.. G.. G..

Share this

AEI Online Tutor