BLASTing Influenza question
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- Project Question: BLASTING influenza
- Project Due Date: February 13m 08
- Project Status: I am finished with my experiment and analyzing the data
BLASTing Influenza question
Hi, i am doing my project BLASTing influenza. I would like to compare the latest vaccine prototypes A/turkey/Turkey/1/05, A/Bar headed goose/Qinghai/1A/2005 and A/Whooping swan/Mongolia/244/2005. For each prototype, I analyzed the first 25 DNA sequences and look for the groups whose DNA alignments are not matched. In addition, I want to figure out the main changes of the strains and predict how long one vaccine lasts for based on the analysis. In addition, I want to see if I can find an alternative if the vaccine is not effective. would you please give me some advices?
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Re: BLASTing Influenza question
You sound like you have a pretty good plan of attack. My only suggestion would be to really study the project outline, particularly exploring the bibliography in as much detail as your time allows.
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Barrett Tomlinson
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If you have specific questions, repost and we will try to help, otherwise just go for it!
Barrett Tomlinson
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- Posts: 2
- Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:32 pm
- Occupation: Student
- Project Question: BLASTING influenza
- Project Due Date: February 13m 08
- Project Status: I am finished with my experiment and analyzing the data
Re: BLASTing Influenza question
Thank you so much for your reply!!! Right now I am looking for a way that I can figure out the best prototype in the analysis. However, it seems that each prototype is not matched with the vaccine prototype well. So, I have problem in deciding the alternate vaccine.