Sequence and Structural Databases

Covers biological sequence databases, protein databases, pathway databases, and bioinformatics tools for sequence analysis and database management

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following programs queries protein sequences to a nucleotide sequence database with the sequences translated in all six reading frames?

  1. BLASTN
  2. BLASTP
  3. BLASTX
  4. TBLASTN
  5. TBLASTX
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following BLAST programs are used to study the sequence-structure-function relationship of nucleotide sequences?

  1. Blastp
  2. MEGABLAST
  3. Blastn
  4. PSI-BLAST
  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1 and 3
  3. 2 and 3
  4. 2 and 4
  5. 3 and 4
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following are examples of progressive alignment programs?

  1. PRRN
  2. DIALIGN2
  3. Match-Box
  4. Clustal
  5. Poa
  1. 1 and 2
  2. 1, 3 and 5
  3. 2 and 4
  4. 3, 4 and 5
  5. 4 and 5
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following programs is a web-based program that predicts promoters for human DNA?

  1. McPromoter
  2. Cluster-Buster
  3. FirstEF
  4. CONPRO
  5. TSSW
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following programs is able to do both simple sequence format conversions as well as alignment format conversions?

  1. PROTA2DNA
  2. RevTrans
  3. Rascal
  4. Readseq
  5. BioEdit
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following is a web-based program that predicts promoters containing a high density of CpG islands in mammalian genomic sequences?

  1. BPROM
  2. FindTerm
  3. FGENES
  4. MZEF
  5. CpGProD
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following databases is/are not Nucleotide Sequence Database (INSD)?

  1. VectorBase
  2. ENA
  3. GenBank
  4. PROSITE
  1. 1 and 4
  2. 1 and 3
  3. 1 and 2
  4. 3 and 4
  5. 2 and 3
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which among the following is/are protein databases?
1. UniProt
2. InterPro
3. SCOP
4. ModBase
5. OMIM

  1. Only 1
  2. 1, 2 and 3
  3. 2, 3 and 4
  4. 1, 2, 3 and 4
  5. Only 4
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following databases gives information of interactions between environmental chemicals and gene products and their relationships to diseases?

  1. TRANScription FACtor database
  2. CT Database
  3. P-HI database
  4. PhenomicDB
  5. Dryad
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The signal transduction pathway databases are __________

  1. Reactome and NetPath
  2. Reactome and MetaCyc
  3. Netpath and MANET
  4. Netpath and MetaCyc
  5. Reactome and MANET
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The phylogenetic database is _______

  1. InterPro
  2. ModBase
  3. RefSeq
  4. SIMAP
  5. TreeFam
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The database which is related to ribosomal RNAs is _______

  1. lncRNAdb
  2. SILVA
  3. GtRNAdb
  4. piRNABank
  5. Rfam
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following databases contains a collection of online databases dealing with genomes, enzymatic pathways and biochemicals?

  1. ProDom database
  2. MUMmer database
  3. TIGRFAMs database
  4. Pfam database
  5. KEGG database
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following databases gives information about enzymes involved in the synthesis, metabolism and transport of saccharide?

  1. TRANSFAC
  2. PRINTS
  3. BMCD
  4. BRENDA
  5. CAZy
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the column – I with column – II

Column – I Column – II
A. MEDLARS Online 1. Nucleotide sequence database
B. DDBJ 2. Bibliographic database
C. NatureServe, Inc. 3. Model organism database
D. WormBase 4. Biodiversity database
  1. A - 4, B - 3, C - 2, D - 1
  2. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3, D - 4
  3. A - 2, B - 1, C - 4, D - 3
  4. A - 3, B - 2, C - 4, D - 1
  5. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3, D - 4