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This section includes 3 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bioinformatics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
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Which of the following statements about PANTHER and TIGRFAMs databases is incorrect regarding its features? |
A. | TIGRFAMs provides a tool for identifying functionally related proteins based on sequence homology |
B. | TIGRFAMs is a collection of protein families, featuring curated multiple sequence alignments, hidden Markov models (HMMs) and annotation |
C. | Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are not used in PANTHER |
D. | PANTHER is a large collection of protein families that have been subdivided into functionally related subfamilies, using human expertise |
Answer» D. PANTHER is a large collection of protein families that have been subdivided into functionally related subfamilies, using human expertise | |
2. |
Which of the following statements about CATH-Gene3D and HAMAP databases is incorrect regarding its features? |
A. | CATH-Gene3D describes protein families and domain architectures in complete genomes |
B. | In CATH-Gene3D the functional annotation is provided to proteins from single resource |
C. | HAMAP profiles are manually created by expert curators they identify proteins that are part of well-conserved bacterial, archaeal and plastid-encoded proteins families or subfamilies. |
D. | HAMAP stands for High-quality Automated and Manual Annotation of microbial Proteomes |
Answer» C. HAMAP profiles are manually created by expert curators they identify proteins that are part of well-conserved bacterial, archaeal and plastid-encoded proteins families or subfamilies. | |
3. |
Which of the following statements about SCOP is incorrect regarding its features? |
A. | Proteins with the same shapes but having little sequence or functional similarity are placed in different super families, and are assumed to have only a very distant common ancestor |
B. | Proteins having the same shape and some similarity of sequence and/or function are placed in families , and are assumed to have a closer common ancestor |
C. | SCOP was created in 1994 in the Centre of Protein Engineering and the University College London |
D. | It aims to determine the evolutionary relationship between proteins |
Answer» D. It aims to determine the evolutionary relationship between proteins | |