Manipulate Biological Data Using Biostrings Package Exercises (Part 1)

Bioinformatics is an amalgamation Biology and Computer science.Biological Data is manipulated using Computers and Computer software’s in Bioinformatics. Biological Data includes DNA; RNA & Protiens. DNA & RNA is made of Nucleotides which are our genetic material in which we are coded.Our Structure and Functions are done by protein, which are build of Amino acids

In the exercises below we cover how we can Manipulate Biological Data using Biostrings package in Bioconductor.

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Biostrings

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Exercise 1

Print out the standard Genetic Code table using Biostrings Package

Exercise 2

Print the first codon in the standard genetic code

Exercise 3

Print out the Standard RNA Genetic Code table using Biostrings package

Exercise 4

Print out the Standard RNA Genetic Code of Stop codon using Biostrings package

Exercise 5

Print out the standard Amino acid codon table using Biostrings

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Exercise 6

Print the code of the start codon from the standard genetic code

Exercise 7

Print the three letter code of Amino acid Methionine using Biostrings

Exercise 8

Create a DNA string and print the length and dinucleotide frequency of the string

Exercise 9

Create RNA string and print the length and dinucleotide frequency of the string

Exercise 10

Create a Protein string and print the length of the protein