This document provides an overview of cells and DNA sequencing. It discusses that cells are the fundamental units of living systems, and that there are over 200 different cell types but the same genetic code. It also describes the common components of cells, including water, small molecules, and macromolecules. The document then explains what global and local sequence alignment are, providing an example of local alignment. It defines DNA sequencing as determining the order of nucleotides in a DNA molecule, and outlines the key steps in DNA sequencing including preparation, reaction, electrophoresis, and computer analysis.
2. What is Cell?
1. Fundamental working units of every living system.
2. Cell specialization in multi-cellular organism.
3. Organs are formed
4. More than 200 different cell types
With lots of variety in every sense
But the genetic code is same
3. Cells
70% water
7% small molecules
salts
lipids
amino acids
nucleotides
23% macromolecules
proteins
polysaccharides
lipids
5. What is Global Alignment?
A general global alignment technique is the Needleman
Wunsch algorithm, which is based on dynamic programming.
Local alignments are more useful for dissimilar sequences that
are suspected to contain regions of similarity or similar
sequence motifs within their larger sequence context.
7. Local Alignment
Initialize first row and first column to be 0.
The score of the best local alignment is the largest value in the entire
array.
To find the actual local alignment:
start at an entry with the maximum score .
traceback as usual
stop when we reach an entry with a score of 0
9. What is DNA sequencing?
DNA sequencing is the process of determining the precise order
of nucleotides within a DNA molecule.
Why DNA sequencing needed?
Determining DNA sequence is basic to understand biological
processes
Automated DNA sequencing is a core research tool used by almost
every research biochemistry lab
13. Computer Analysis
The computer displays the information
as an electropherogram, a trace of
signal received by the photodetector
in different wavelengths
Computer assigns false colors to each
of the four tracings