Bioinformatics Practice Test 1

1. Which of the following is true about Expectation Maximization (EM) method?

2. The protein structural motif domain- helix loop helix are contained by all of the following except ________

3. Which of the following is not a member database of InterPro?

4. For significantly aligning sequences what is the resulting structure on the plot?

5. Motifs that can form α/β horseshoes conformation are rich with which protein residue?

6. Among the following which one is not the approach to the local alignment?

7. _______ is an interactive program for generating sequence logos.

8. A gap opening penalty for any gap (g) and a gap extension penalty for each element in the gap (r) are most often used, to give a total gap score wx, according to the equation ______

9. Local alignments are more used when _____________

10. Which of the following is not an advantage of Needleman-Wunsch algorithm?