BNFO 301
Introduction to Bioinformatics
Questionnaire on: Search for FMRP
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Spring 2006

I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Search for FMRP
A. Do you understand why locating a Drosophila version of FMRP might be of some use in understanding the basis of Fragile X Syndrome? 

B. How's your progress in finding a gene in Drosophila similar to FMRP?  

C. How comfortable in looking for genes and proteins through the NCBI website? 

D. How comfortable are you with using Blast to find genes and proteins? 

E. Do you understand why the indirect approach (use the human protein to find the fly protein to get to the fly gene) worked but the direct approach (use the human gene to find the fly gene) did not? 
 
Comments for II:
Search for FMRP of RNA

III. Tours
A. How's your progress in completing the tour entitled What is a Gene?  

B. How's your progress in completing the tour entitled What is a Formal Language?  

C. Did you find the latter tour useful to you?  

D. (Those new to programming) How comfortable are you using BioBIKE in the directed fashion you've used it so far? 

E. (Those old to programming) How comfortable are you adjusting to the peculiarities of the BioBIKE language? 
 
Comments for III:
Tours

IV. Meta-questions
A. Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have.
 

Thanks!

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