Course Notes: Bioinformatics, Spring 2004

Professors Fetrow, Burg, Miller

CSC 391/691; PHY 392; BCHM 715

Jan 22, 2004: When we submit our assignments to you electronically, do you prefer .doc, .txt, or .pdf formats? I would prefer pdf or Word (.doc) documents. If you prefer, you can also hand in hard copies.

Jan 22, 2004:  Lab Ex 1, question 7: it says to do this for each gene you selected in Question 2, but we only selected 1. Do you mean if SGD provided us with 3 genes, say COX15, COX16, COX20, that we have to do this for all 3 of them? Or are we just supposed to do it for the one we used in questions 4, 5, and 6? I apologize for the lack of clarity in this question. You only have to do this for the one you used in questions 4-6. 
Jan 22, 2004: Lab Ex 1:  Okay, on question 2 in the section for Bio students, I am supposed to find an “EC number.”  Would you mind giving me an idea what I’m looking for here?  I can’t find a reference to anything like that in any of the databases, and I don’t ever recall coming across such a thing in the past. EC stands for the Enzyme Commission. It is a formalized way of numbering enzyme functions. Check out http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iubmb/enzyme/ for more information. Unfortunately, if you happened to pick a gene that was not an enzyme, there won’t be an EC number. If this happened, please just select another gene in your list for this particular question—and try to find one that is an enzyme. Enzyme names usually end in “-ase”. 

Jan 15, 2004: Typo in Vocabulary Worksheet: under terms to be defined by Bio students, rmp archive should be rpm archive