Homework

1. Learn Perl programming language and learn bioinformatics using it.

 1) Install and Learn Bioperl 

 2) Make a perl program translating 'all' combinations of triple bases into amino acids

 3) Pick 5 protein sequences and predict their secondary structures using available prediction programs

 4) Open and re-write one FASTA file containing one protein sequence of TERT

 5) Create a FASTA file with a sequence. Open it and reverse the sequence of it and print it out in another FASTA file

 6) Extract a sequence MKKTGIKG from ASMKATAHQMKKTGIKGMSTYALLRL and print it out in a file

 7) In a multi-sequence FASTA file, produce statistics such as sequence number, average seq length, GC content, AT content, etc

 8) Align two protein sequences using a dynamic programming method in perl

 9) Randomly generate five 100 AA long protein sequences and store them in a FASTA file

 10) Create a flat text file database of protein sequences with has functino in Perl