Question

Knowing ________ should be enough to find the required entry quickly.

(a) publication date, protein name, journal name

(b) accession number, protein name, or name of gene

(c) publication date, protein name, or volume

(d) properties, protein name, or title word

This question was addressed to me during an interview.

My question is from Using the Database Access Program ENTREZ in division Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

Correct choice is (b) accession number, protein name, or name of gene

To elaborate: If the same protein has been sequenced in several organisms, providing an organism name is also helpful. When the chosen search terms and fields have been decided and submitted, a database comprising all of the currently available sequences (called the non redundant or NR database) will be searched. Other database selections can also be made.