Topic
Computational Skills
Framing Question
How do biologists employ software development as part of the scientific discovery process?
Learning Objectives
- Write a script to calculate the reverse complement of a nucleotide sequence
- Write a script to determine reading frames of a nucleotide sequence.
- Write a script to calculate melting point of double-stranded DNA.
- Write a script to retrieve the promoter regions for a set of related genes.
- Write a script to find the longest open reading frame in a given nucleotide sequence
- Write a script to calculate the reverse complement of a nucleotide sequence.
- Write a script to convert an RNA sequence to cDNA and to amino acids
- Write a script to calculate molecular weight and isoelectric point.
- Write a script to count amino acid frequency.
- Write a script that compares the relative hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity of two protein sequences.
