Biological Sciences :: Bio Informatics Job Interview Questions and Answers

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1 ► What is e value?
2 ► How is the respiratory system applied to the sport paintball?
3 ► How to identify highly mutated aminoacid from clustalw?
4 ► Can isolation of DNA done with perfection? how?
5 ► What are databases used in bioinformatics?
6 ► Explain it is a common experience that if we go on burping simultaneously and consciously(i.e.purposely,as in a non- natural action),our stomach starts aching. Why does this happen?
7 ► Which field have wider prospective of job M.sc bioinformatics or M.sc biotechnology?
8 ► What are the responsible factors for extinction of flora and fauna?
9 ► What is the difference between present and oldest drug discovery methods?
10 ► WHY YOU SELECT BIOINFORMATICS AS YOUR MAJOR FIELD?
11 ► Derive e-value?
12 ► How to  run DOCK 6 using cygwin?
13 ► What are the main signals used for gene finding in prokaryotic genomes? How are these signals introduced into the search algorithms?
14 ► Explain Homology modelling?
15 ► What is the meaning of science?
16 ► Which of the following sequences contains the pattern [AG]-x(4)-G-K-[ST] from the PROSITE database?seq. A: VAGWGKST seq B: GVLKRGKS seq. C: AGVLKGRT seq. D: AGVGKSTP?
17 ► What is the main idea of maximum parsimony in phylogenetic tree construction? What are the drawbacks?
18 ► What are the main approaches of predicting protein interactions using genomic context analysis?
19 ► How you calculate sensitivity and selectivity of Blast?
20 ► Suppose you used the NCBI Blast server to look for a match to a fruit-fly gene. Suppose further that the best alignment contained this section of an alignment: Hit from database: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXNFSTSQuser sequence:     SLEAEAAPASISPSNFSSSQ What do the Xs signify?