GB/T 29859-2013Bioinformatics terms (English PDF)

2.1 Bioinformatics

2.1.1 Bioinformatics

Application of information science and related disciplines methods and techniques, research and analysis of biological systems and biological processes in information storage, processing and transmission

Of a cross-disciplinary.

2.2 Biological Sequence Alignment

2.2.1 Sequence alignment

Comparing two or more nucleotide or amino acid sequence similarity between the processes.

2.2.2 Structure alignment

Compare two or more proteins or nucleic acid molecule similarity in the process of spatial structure.

2.2.3 Basic Local Alignment Search Tool basiclocalalignmentsearchtool; BLAST

Based on local alignments of sequence database search tool.

2.2.4 Nucleic acid sequence

Order nucleic acid molecule (deoxy) nucleotides commonly IUPAC nucleotide character set will be described.

2.2.5 Domain

Protein or nucleic acid molecule having a specific structure and function of the folding unit.

2.2.6 Untranslated region untranslatedregion; UTR

Located on both sides of the coding sequence of the messenger RNA is not translated into the sequence of the protein.

2.2.7 Conserved sequence

In the evolutionary process is essentially the same nucleotide sequence or amino acid sequence.

2.2.8 Exon

Part of the eukaryotic gene splicing will be retained after the sequence in the mature RNA molecule.