How to read DNA?

Presentation for pupils at the Babraham Institute School Day

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1. H O W T O R E A D D N A ?
2. H E L A C E L L S ( W H Y H E L A ? )
3. H E L A C E L L S It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line. It was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951, from Henrietta Lacks, a patient who eventually died of her cancer on October 4, 1951.
4. Let us assume you managed to extract the DNA from HELA cells D N A
5. D N A S
6. D N A I S V E RY L O N G
7. D N A S O U P
8. T H E N E W S PA P E R P R O B L E M
9. T H E N E W S PA P E R P R O B L E M
10. B A C K T O B I O L O G Y ? Bioinformatics Bioinformatics Biology Biology Biology
11. O V E R L A P P I N G I S E A S Y (if the sequence is known)
12. O V E R L A P P I N G I S H A R D (if the sequence is unknown) Find a path in the de Bruijn graph that visits every edge exactly once - Eulerian path
13. W H AT I S T H E FA S T E S T M A M M A L ?
14. S O , W H AT D I D J U N E 2 7 , 2 0 0 0 N Y T I M E S S AY ?
15. S O , W H AT D I D J U N E 2 7 , 2 0 0 0 N Y T I M E S S AY ?
16. T H A N K Y O U ! Presentation is based on materials from https://www.coursera.org/course/bioinformatics