BNFO 301 
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Fuller et al (1984)
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Spring 2015 


I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Old Business
Problem Set 1

A. Your thoughts on Problem 2 (length of human genome)?
   

B. Your thoughts on Problem 8 (algorithm to make complementary DNA strand)?
   

C. Your thoughts on Problem 3 (frequency of CCCGGG in Prochlorococcus)?
   

D. Your thoughts on Problem 4 (Fig. 2 from Nakamura & Inouye)?
   

Getting used to BioBIKE

E. Any areas you think would be useful to discuss?
   

What is a Gene?

F. Final thoughts on What is a Gene? and its companion?
   

III. Fuller et al (1984)

A. How far have you gotten in this article (and its companion)?
   

Consider how comfortable you are with the following topics regarding these matters:

B. The question you are directing at this article and the biology behind the question

C. The relationship (or possible relationship between DNA replication, DnaA protein, and the 9-basepair sequence

D. The process of skimming an article to decide what part of it to read

E. The nature of M13oriC26 RFI

F. Restriction of M13oriC26 by TaqI and the nature of Fig. 1

G. The filter binding experiment

H. How to understand Fig. 2A

   

I. Choose up to five study questions (including those from the special help on restriction digestion of M13) that you would most like discussed in class and explain why .
     

IV. Probability tools
Any issues arising from the posted presentation on tools for probability calculations?
Do you think you could use these tools in real problems (e.g. Problem Set 1, #3)?
V. Miscellaneous

Any other comments, questions, suggestions, or concerns you may have?

Thanks!

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