ashleybc/topic-functional-annotation

A repository for the lessons and notebooks used for Binder tutorials

TOPIC: Functional Annotation

A repository for the lessons and tutorials for the Functional Annotation TOPIC channel of the BVCN

Prerequisites

• A working Unix environment
• Experience with the command line

Overview

This BVCN topic will cover:

• how to predict opening reading frames for all three domains of life
• the methodologies used to assign functions to proteins
• the intricacies of the specific tools and databases that can used for varying levels of specificity

Lesson 1

Title: How to predict open reading frames on DNA?

Goals

• Tools for predicting open reading frames for Bacteria and Archaea
• Tools for predicting open reading frames for Eukaryotes
• Converting open reading frames to predicted proteins

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Lesson 2

Title: Orthology based functional annotation

Goals

• Difference between homolog and ortholog?
• Tools for orthology based functional annotation
  • BLAST+
  • DIAMOND
• Databases
• Interpreting similarity based results

Watch the tutorial

Follow the tutorial here

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