Bioinformatics Questions

Bridge amplification and cluster generation are associated with which sequencing platform(s)?

Would the quality of the data below be considered high or low?

Which of the following sequencing platforms we discussed in class produces the shortest reads?

How many lines would a fastq file containing information for 1,000,000 reads contain?

Given a Phred quality score (Q) of 10 for a particular base of a sequencing read, what is the probability that the base was called incorrectly?

What software was used in class to assess next-gen sequencing data quality?

What software was used in class to map reads to a reference genome?

Which of the following techniques is used to copy/amplify fragments of DNA?

Sanger sequencing is no longer used to sequence DNA.

What keyboard key is used to autofill the name of a file or directory within the terminal?

What keyboard keys are used to scroll through the command history in the terminal?

What unix command that we covered in class likely generated the output shown in the terminal below (there is more than one correct answer)? (image of genome sequence)

Which of the following is not an example of an omics application?

What unix command is used to make a new directory?

What unix command likely generated the output shown in the terminal below?

What unix command is used to change the working directory in the terminal?

Which of the following symbols is commonly used to flag command options?

What software was used in class to view sequence traces/chromatograms (there is more than one correct answer)?

Of the following two alignments, which is more likely to have been generated by software that does global sequence alignment?

What symbols are used to redirect output from a command from the terminal to a file?