Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter P

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

1. What is "PacBio RSII"?

PacBio RSII - It is a sequencing platform available through Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, CA that generates 250 Mb sequence per run with an average read length of 4,500 bp.

2. What is "Pairwise alignment"?

Pairwise alignment - It is a alignment of two sequences.

3. What is "Paralogue"?

Paralogue - these are two genes within the same species are called paralogs if they evolved from the other (evolved from one ancestral gene).

4. What is "Parsimony"?

Parsimony - It is a technique for reconstructing phylogenetic trees

5. What is "Patterns"?

Patterns - These are conserved residues that one can use as a functional signature.

6. What is "Perl script"?

Perl script - It is a program written in Perl, which is optimized for manipulating and finding patterns in sequences

7. What is "Pfam"?

Pfam - It is a collection of profiles for detecting domains and protein families.

8. What is "PIR"?

PIR - It is a protein information resource, an annotated protein database similar to SWISS-PROT. PIR is also the name of a sequence format that is similar to FASTA.

9. What is "Polymorophism"?

Polymorophism - It is an alternative forms of genes and other sequences.

10. What is "Postgebnomic era"?

Postgebnomic era - It is the time in biology after entire genomes have been sequenced routinely.
The postgenomic era began around the year 2000.

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