Tag: #bioinformatics
Why does this RNA virus look like DNA?
RNA genomes of viruses like COVID-19 are often sequenced as complementary DNA (cDNA) for practical reasons, though the actual genome is made of RNA with uracil instead of thymine. 2020-02-16
Diffing coronaviruses
Comparing the genome sequences of the Wuhan coronavirus and a bat coronavirus using
diff and NCBI BLAST reveals an 89% similarity. 2020-02-09Browsing my genome
Exploring my 23andMe genome data - a text file of single nucleotide polymorphisms, not a full DNA sequence, requiring a reference genome to interpret. 2019-12-30
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