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Sequence Similarity: A Quick Introduction to Bioconductor

Author(s): Derek Edward Sollberger

UC Merced School of Natural Sciences

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In this bioinformatics adventure, we are going to continue to look amino acid sequences and compute similarity scores using the BLOSUM62 matrix, but we will take a glimpse at some of the tools that are available in the world of Bioconductor. This set of tasks are set after Exercise 3 in the Sequence Similarity materials

Bioconductor is a collection of R packages that has been built by several bioinformatics researchers to perform common calculations in their field. In their own words, ``Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language, and is open source and open development. It has two releases each year, and an active user community.’’

 

Notes

  • Introduce students to the Bioconductor suite of R packages
  • Perform sequence similarity calculations

 

Reference

Kleinschmit, A., Brink, B., Roof, S., Goller, C., and Robertson, S.D.  2019. Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and “under the hood” approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses. CourseSourcehttps://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2019.5

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