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Question 30
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BLAST and its extensions can be used to determine similarity of a query protein sequence with which of the following database(s)?
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Correctly match the following Bioinformatic tool/Database with its respective Utility.
Bioinformatic tool/Database | Utility |
|---|---|
P. BLAST | 1. Database for 3D protein structures |
Q. Bowtie | 2. Tool to identify similarity of a query sequence to existent sequences available in databanks |
R. AlphaFold | 3. Tool to align short read DNA sequences obtained from Next-generation sequencing to a reference genome |
S. PDB | 4. AI tool to predict protein structures |
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Which one of the following programs is used for finding distantly related (or remote) protein homologs?
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Which one of the following is used for global alignment of two protein sequences?
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If there are three unrooted trees for four protein sequences, the number of rooted trees for the same number of sequences is __________.
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Which of the following is NOT used for generating an optimal alignment of two nucleotide sequences?
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The maximum parsimony method is used to construct a phylogenetic tree for a set of sequences. Which one of the following statements about the method is CORRECT?
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Number of unrooted trees in a phylogeny of five sequences is
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Which one of the following tools is used to compare all the possible six-open reading frames of a given nucleotide query sequence with all the available six-open reading frames of the nucleotide sequence database?
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An algorithm was designed to find globins in protein sequence databases. A database which has 78 globin sequences was searched using this algorithm. The algorithm retrieved 72 sequences of which only 65 were globins. The sensitivity of this algorithm is __________ % (round off to 2 decimal places).
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