Bioinformatics in Industry
Uses of Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics techniques
100

What is the name of the popular genetic testing company? 

23 and Me

100

What does Transcriptomics mean?

 study which genes are ‘on’/’off’ at a given time

100

What system used in class helped create visual representations of plasmids for cloning?

Serial Cloner

200

How much is the Bioinformatics projected to be worth in 2022?

Over 16 Billion


200

What is the name of the international project that is sequencing the the nucleotide bas pairs that make up human DNA, and identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome?

Human Genome Project


200

In experiment number ______ we manually aligned sequences using Kelly Bioinformatics

five

300

What is the name of the bioinformatics center at SDSU? 

BMIRC (biological and medical informatics research center)


300

What is Proteomics? 

  • analysis of complete set of proteins in an organism

300

What does BLAST stand for? 

Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

400

Bioinformatics combines what three disciplines?

Biology, Statistics, and Computer Science 


400

What is metabolomics? 

study of metabolites in an organism

400

What does EMBOSS stand for or what is it used for?

European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite 

Used in sequence analysis