Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

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?

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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If you have specific questions, repost and we will try to help, otherwise just go for it!

Barrett Tomlinson

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.