BIOL368/F11:Class Journal Week 8
Isaiah M. Castaneda
After working with the protein tools on today's assignment, compare your experience with working with the nucleic acid tools versus the protein tools. Which do you like better, and why?
I have no preference in working with either tools. They are both interesting to use, but they provide very different information about the samples being looked at. However, the outcomes from the sequencing tools seemed a bit more closely related to the type of material that has been covered in previous courses throughout my LMU years. Therefore, I more readily understood the point of the results from using the nucleic acid tools, rather than the protein tools. For example, before using the ProtParam and TMHMM programs, I did not really know why I wanted to look for transmembrane regions. Luckily, our text book gave some nice explanations on the importance of looking for such regions. Still, I possess no favoritism between the two tools; they are equally loved.
Isaiah M. Castaneda 00:48, 26 October 2011 (EDT)
Nicolette S. Harmon
- I prefer the nucleic acid tools just because I have more experience with them over the proteins. The protein tools are interesting but I don't understand some of them, such as the ones for finding the domains. I'm sure it will be the case that I will eventually have no preference, but probably not until I become more comfortable with the protein tools.
Nicolette S. Harmon 01:28, 26 October 2011 (EDT)
