Genomics and Proteomics-Functional and Computational Aspects

1 Daily Bread 1 1.1 Making Buffers 1 1.2 Protein Determination 1 1.2.1 BCA Assay 2 1.2.2 Bradford Assay 3 1.2.3 Lowry Assay 3 1.2.4 Starcher Assay 3 1.2.5 Protein Concentration 4 1.3 Gels 4 1.3.1 SDS Gels 5 1.3.2 For the Impatient: SDS Electrophores

Modern biology has become an information science. Since the invention of a DNA sequencing method by Sanger in the late seventies, public repositories of genomic sequences have been growing exponentially, doubling in size every 16 months—a rate often