Bioinformatics @ GT, Fall 2023 Kickoff Meeting!

Who is our OFFICIAL faculty sponsor (as registered with SGA)?

• Dr. King Jordan

• Dr. Jennifer Whitlow

• Dr. Cassie Mitchell

• Dr. Elizabeth Cherry

Which algorithmic technique is frequently applied in computational biology for sequence alignment, such as in DNA sequencing?

• Depth-First Search

• Greedy Algorithm

• Dynamic Programming

• Breadth-First Search

Which of the following events will we NOT be hosting this semester?

• Projects

• Faculty Panel

• Social Events

• Research Matchmaking

Which of the following programs are we NOT connected or partnered with?

• The College of Computing

• Bioinformatics Graduate Program

• The College of Sciences

• Center for Integrative Genomics

An enzyme is a biological catalyst that breaks down a(n) ______ into products.

• allele

• nucleotide sequence

• lipid

• substrate

There is one thread that all the CS majors on the team share. Which one is it?

• Intelligence

• Information Internetworks

• People

• Modeling and Simulation

Sanger sequencing is significantly more accurate than next-generation sequencing.

• True

• False

In computational biology, what data structure is commonly used to efficiently store and retrieve DNA sequences?

• Linked List

• Dictionary/Hash map

• Binary Tree or Tries

• Stacks

About ______ gigabytes of genetic data is sequenced per year.

• 300 million

• 1.4 billion

• 19 billion

• 40 billion

Which coding language is primarily used in bioinformatics research?

• Python

• Matlab

• C++

• Java