Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter N

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

1. What is "NCBI"?

NCBI - It is National Center for Biotechnology Information a federally funded part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. NCBI is the home of GenBank, BLAST, COG, and many other genomic databases and computational tools.

2. What is "Neighbor joining(NJ)"?

Neighbor joining, NJ - It is the most popular method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

3. What is "NextSeq Illumina"?

NextSeq Illumina - It is a sequencing platform that generates 120 Gb sequence per run with paired read lengths of 150 bp.

4. What is "Normal distribution"?

Normal distribution - Data have an average value around which all the individuals are clustered.
A graph of normal distribution results in the classic ‘bell curve’.

5. What is "Normalized data"?

Normalized data that has been corrected or standardized, for example, by subtracting the sample mean from each observation, and dividing the result by the sample standard deviation.

6. What is "NR"?

NR - It is the non-redundant protein database that contains all the putative protein sequences contained in the nucleotide databases. Its European equivalent is TrEMBL.

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