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Questions tagged [genomics]

The study of genomes, the DNA complement of organisms.

Genomics can be thought of as a set of high-throughput techniques for collecting and analyzing DNA sequences and related information. Often, genomic techniques are employed to study questions relevant to genetics or cell biology.

Questions that can have this tag:

  • Questions related to genome sequencing and assembly (See also )
  • Questions related to variation in genomes (SNPs, CNVs)
  • Questions related to genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
  • Questions related to comparisons of genomes, e.g. its organization or function, between different organisms.
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How many dinosaur genes are in a chicken genome?

I read recently that we can "work back" to a dinosaur by selectively turning off certain genes in chickens, and we were able to create a chicken with a snout instead of a beak. How many dinosaur genes are still hanging around in a chicken genome? I…
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Can one identify an organism based on its genome alone?

If one is given the complete genome of some unknown organism, would it be possible to systematically deduce what this organism looks like and behaves like without reference to anything else (ex: a repository of genomes of known living organisms)? In…
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Are Protocadherin Gamma Cluster transcripts considered separate genes?

The PDCH@ cluster of genes share exons and are therefore isoforms of each other. However, they are considered separate genes, by both HUGO and Ensembl. A "gene" is defined as "a locus of co-transcribed exons" (Venter 2001), and this locus clearly…
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Punnet Square for Genotype Probabilities

I'm a computational physicist by trade, and today I was working with a student that is coding a simulation that requires the interactions of different genotypes to determine which phenotype will be expressed. This student drew a Punnent Square like…
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How can a sequence be downloaded from UCSC genome browser

If I have genome coordinates is there a simple way to download the entire intervening sequence from the UCSC genome browser? I found some fancy way of using ftp but I can't figure it out.
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filtering variant list according to target regions

I have a variant list in VCF file for a particular disease, I want to filter these variants according to exonic regions in a BED file using a Perl script. How I do this?
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