1. March 04, 2011
Bioinformatics:
This lab was intended to help us familiarize with the data bases that help us compare
different DNA sequences. It helps us compare DNA sequences from different species
and even a certain gene can be sequenced according the species it belongs to. It was
used to find to what organism an unknown sequence belongs to. This was used to find
out which staff member was working with an illegal species of monkey. All we had was
the sequences being worked on the lab. We used the data base to blast the sequence
and compare the results to our species of monkey. It resulted that the second staff
member was working with this illegal species. After the sequence was blasted, the
results turned back at 100% similarity. We can observe that the closer the species are,
the more similar the sequences will be. As an example, after blasting the second
sequence, I found out that other species of monkeys had a close to identical result to
the DNA sequence to that of the tamarin monkey.