Explore topic-wise MCQs in Bioinformatics.

This section includes 4 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bioinformatics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Because different prediction programs have different levels of sensitivity and specificity, it makes sense to combine results of multiple programs based on consensus. This idea has prompted development of consensus-based algorithms.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
2.

TwinScan is also a similarity-based gene-finding Server and it is similar to GenomeScan in that it uses GenScan to predict all possible exons from the genomic sequence.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
3.

Which of the following is untrue about SGP-1?

A. The program translates all potential exons in each sequence and does pair wise alignment for the translated protein sequences using a dynamic programming approach
B. The near-perfect matches at the protein level define coding regions
C. It is a similarity-based web program that aligns two genomic DNA sequences from distinctly related organisms
D. It stands for Syntenic Gene Prediction
Answer» D. It stands for Syntenic Gene Prediction
4.

Which of the following is untrue about FGENES?

A. It stands for FindGenes
B. It is a web-based program that uses LDA
C. It is used to determine whether a signal is an exon
D. It does not make a use of HMMs
Answer» E.