Human Genome
TostudyhumangenomeclickonHUMAN.
ThenclickonMOREINFORMATIONAND
STATISTICS.
Human Genome
AfterclickingonMOREINFORMATIONAND
STATISTICS,youwillbeabletoseethisbelow
table:
Human Genome Karyotype
Tostudyhumangenomekaryotypeclickonkaryotype.
Thenclickyouwillseethisbelow:
Inaboveimage,itshowsthathumanschromosomes
have22autosomes,1pairofsexchromosomes(X,Y)
andMitochondrialgenome(MT).
Knowing about the specific gene
Toknowaboutaspecifictypeofgene,weneed
itssymbol.
Forexample,thesymbolforINSULINisINS.
PutthissymbolinsearchbarandGO.
NowclickonthefirstlinkINS(HUMANGENE)
andyouwillknowaboutalltheinformation
aboutthatgene.
Knowing about the specific gene
NowyouwillseedifferentTranscriptsofthegeneINSULIN.
Thereare5TranscriptsforINSULIN.Clickonanytranscript.
Knowing about the specific gene
Afterclickingonthefirsttranscriptandyouwill
seethisinterfaceonleftsideofscreen:
Itshowthreeoptions:
Exons,cDNA,Protein
ClickonEXONSandyouwillseethisinterface
below:
Knowing about the specific gene
Inthisbelowinterface,
thedottedlinesarenon-codingsegmentsorINTERONS.
thelettersinblueandbrowncolorarecodingregionsorEXONS.
What is ORF?
ORFstandsforOPENREADINGFRAMES.
ItisalcocalledcDNA.
ItisacontinuoussequenceofDNAthatcomprisesofstartcodonandastop
codon.
Itisasequencewithoutanynon-codingcodons.
Itistheactualsequenceofnucleotidesthatperformsfunction.
Forexample,ORFofINSULIN,wearegoingtolocateitnow:
Locating the ORF
InthetranscriptinterfaceyouwillseeCCDS
column.
Clickonfirstofit.
About the lines of cDNA sequence
Afterclickingonthetranscriptandyouwillsee
thisinterfaceonleftsideofscreen:
Itshowthreeoptions:
Exons,cDNA,Protein
ClickoncDNAandyouwillseethisinterface
below:
About the lines of cDNA sequence
AfterclickingoncDNAandyouwillseethisinterface
below:
1
st
lineisanucleotideline(codingregion).
2
nd
lineisalsoanucleotidelinenutitisnon-coding.
3
rd
lineisaAminoacids.