NCBI and PubMed Quiz

What does NCBI stand for?

• National Computational Biology Institute

• National Committee for Biomedical Informatics

• National Council for Bioinformatics Innovation

• National Center for Biotechnology Information

What is PubMed?

• A database for chemical compound structures

• A software for protein structure modeling

• A tool for genome sequence alignment

• A search engine for scientific and biomedical literature

Which of the following is not a key feature in NCBI?

• BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)

• GenBank

• PubMed

• PyMOL

How do you start looking for a specific sequence in NCBI?

• Go into the lab and do PCR

• Browse PubMed for related research articles

• Go to Tiktok and search for the most trending video

• Perform a keyword search in the GenBank database

What is an accession number in biological databases?

• A sequence alignment score used in BLAST

• A numerical code representing the molecular weight of a sequence

• A classification number for different species in taxonomy

• A unique identifier assigned to DNA or protein sequences

Which of the following statements about accession numbers is true?

• Accession numbers are used to calculate sequence similarity in BLAST.

• Accession numbers are always the same format across all databases.

• Accession numbers represent the physical location of genes in the genome.

• A single molecule can have multiple accession numbers due to ESTs and DNA fragments matching it.

What is RefSeq?

• A software used for multiple sequence alignment

• A tool for predicting protein structures

• A database exclusively for storing raw sequencing data

• A database of manually curated reference sequences for genes, transcripts, and proteins