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Bioinformatics Lab 1: BLAST Analysis by SUNDAS FATIMA is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document describes a lab session introduction to bioinformatics databases and online resources. It provides a transcript sequence and prompts the user to search it using BLASTn against the NR database. The top four hits are hemoglobin genes from human, chimpanzee and bonobo with 99% identity. Further questions explore details about the top hit HBB gene on chromosome 11, which encodes the beta subunit of hemoglobin and is involved in oxygen transport but mutations can cause sickle cell anemia.
- Author
- SUNDAS FATIMA
- Language
- EN