BLASTing Flu Virus

[kewl44]

I need help on choosing a question for the topic. I can figure out what to do the project on. Please help!

[deleted-71417]

Hi,

I presume you want to do this project:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p003.shtml

What do you want to learn by doing this project? That is your question. The project suggests asking whether the strains selected for a specific year were the best ones. You could also ask why the specific strains selected for the year’s flu vaccine were the ones chosen. You coulc also ask, based on the flu incidence of a specific year, how effective the flu vaccine was for that year. Can you find out how the strains for a particular year were chosen? Can you make a flu vaccine from just any strain? If not, what characteristics should a candidate flu strain have to make it a good candidate for use in a vaccine? Use your curiosity as a guide to the best question.

You could also call your local health department and try to interview them on how strain are chosen or what they think is important in making a flu vaccine.

Best regards,

Barrett L Tomlinson

[deleted-71949]

Hi,
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentorin ... =25&t=5115
might be of help to you.
I'm not an Expert, but I was looking for bioinformatics projects a while ago, and stumbled across this.

blueswim