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Viral Amino acid sequence

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Viral Amino acid sequence

Postby Layd33foxx » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:01 am

How can a viral amino acid sequence be used to identify a virus?
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Postby AstraSequi » Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:30 am

The same way that pretty much any amino acid sequence (or better yet, nucleotide sequence) of sufficient length can be used to identify any organism. :)
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Postby JackBean » Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:02 am

Protein sequences are not so well used for organism identification, since you cannot multiply them. Nucleic acids are better for that.

Anyway, if you get some proteins, you identify them with mass spec (either MALDI or digest on LC-MS) and this information you use for the identification.
http://www.biolib.cz/en/main/

Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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