Sample interview questions: Have you used bioinformatics tools or databases in your research? If so, which ones?
Sample answer:
- NCBI GenBank: A comprehensive database of nucleotide and protein sequences from a wide range of organisms, including plants and their pathogens.
- UniProt: A curated database of protein sequences from multiple organisms, including plants and their pathogens.
- PhylomeDB: A database of phylogenomic data for a wide range of organisms, including plants and their pathogens.
- Ensembl Plants: A database of annotated plant genomes and gene expression data.
- Plant-Pathogen Interactions Database (PPID): A collection of information on known interactions between plants and their pathogens, compiled from scientific literature and experimental data.
- Pathosystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC): A database that provides access to genomic, functional, and comparative data for a variety of bacterial, fungal, and oomycete plant pathogens.
In addition to these databases, I have used a variety of bioinformatics tools in my research, including:
- BLAST: A tool for performing sequence similarity searches against a large database of biological sequences.
- Clustal Omega: A multiple sequence alignment tool that can be used to identify conserved regions and generate … Read full answer