KP Ramirez Week 4
come up with a question to email about what you felt should be asked in this paper?
I began by loading up the Markham paper from PubMed then clicking on the nucleotides links. From there I could access GenBank. I noted that the links seemed to be invalid however I was able to access them through a different browser.
Assignment
• What was the accession number of the sequence you chose?
- AF016768 (number 1)
- AF089153 (Number 2)
- AF089140 (Number 7)
- AF089540 (number 41
• Which subject of the study was that HIV sequence from? Which section of the record contains information about who the HIV was collected from?
- Subject 1 visit 1 clone 9
- Subject 4 visit 2-3
- Subject 3 visit 5-9
- Subject 12 visit 3-4
• Download several (4 to 6) sequences in FASTA format to your local hard drive by selecting several at the same time in the summary view so they are saved into a single text file. Be careful to remember where you put the file and what you name it so that you can find it later.
- Completed
• Open the file that you saved with a word processor to confirm that you have the sequences and that they are in the FASTA format. In the FASTA format each sequence is preceeded by a label which begins with the greater than sign (>).
- Completed
This shows that simply comparing these subjects doesn't entire show a pattern. Subject 12 has the shortest branch of the three closest.
Part 2
Journal Assignments
