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Bioinformatics of human genome
Kupková, Karolína ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
Bachelor thesis deals with DNA segments containing only adenine and guanine. The theoretical part describes the structure and composition of deoxyribonucleic acid, chromosomes and genes. There are basic informations about chimpanzees and the human genome and conformations of the chains containing adenine with guanine. The practical part consists of a program that searches for the required sections in sequence, it displays and saves it. The thesis includes analysis of genes which are common for humans and chimpanzees, which were analyzed to determine randomness, functionality a preserving of these sections.
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Genomic Data Mining Techniques
Jaša, Petr ; Křivka, Zbyněk (referee) ; Burgetová, Ivana (advisor)
First of all, this thesis sets itself a goal to introduce some common technics for datamining in genomics and as a next step to implement own algorithm like algorithm BLAST. In the concrete, this work is pointed to sequences of DNA. The DNA sequence contains in itself genetic information, which is template for living organism. For explanation this information can be used number of technics. This paper describes algorithm Fasta and algorithms from BLAST family. With these algorithms, it is possible to gain a lot of important information even about such DNA sequences, where only primary structure is known. Principle of these algorithms is based on alignments of one query sequence, which we want to obtain some information from, with many sequences stored in database. According to result alignment, it is possible to determine many features of the query sequence.
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Searching adenine and guanine rich regions
Vlachynská, Alžběta ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
This work deals with searching adenine and guanine rich regions. Their finding which determines the randomness and functionality may lead to better understanding genetic data storage in DNA sequences. The first part of the work describes the chemical composition and structure of DNA, its replication, transcription and translation. It contains the basic information about the genome. The next chapter deals with numerical representation of DNA sequences, necessary for a computer processing. Nucleotide density is a method suitable for searching adenine and guanine rich regions. The practical part of the work is an application designed and implmented in MATLAB environment. The last part is the analysis of human, chimpanzee and mice genes.
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Alignment of DNA Parts
Pejř, Václav ; Burgetová, Ivana (referee) ; Rozman, Jaroslav (advisor)
This thesis deals with finding the possibilities within the sphere of alignment of DNA sequences. Based on these findings, the best solution should be found with regard to the quickness of computation and quality of alignment. Following this I intend to implement and thus create a functioning program that will do the alignment. The thesis starts with introducing issues dealing with biology, DNA and genetics. The introduction is followed by a survey of algorithms that are used for alignment, their evaluation and selection of the most appropriate algorithm for the implementation. The thesis also focuses on the usage of parallel programming by means of OpenCL libraries. The alignment is being done above many sequences at the same time, so that the methods how this process can be done and how to reach the best results are being examined.
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Identifying CpG islands in genomes of eukaryotes
Urbánková, Kateřina ; Provazník, Ivo (referee) ; Maděránková, Denisa (advisor)
Bachelor thesis deals with searching CpG islands in DNA. The theoretical part describes the structure and composition of deoxyribonucleic acid, chromosomes and genes. There is basic information about human and chimpanzees genome and specification of CpG islands. Practical part consists of a program that searches for CpG islands in sequences, it displayes and saves it. This work includes analysis of genes which are common for Homo sapiens, Pan troglodytes, Mus musculus and Bos taurus.
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Non-resonant Raman Spectroscopic Study of Guanine Quadruplex Structures
Golan, Martin ; Mojzeš, Peter (advisor) ; Mašek, Vlastimil (referee)
Parts of human telomere sequences containing at least 4 guanine subsequences show the ability to form intrastrand quadruplexes of remarkable conformational diversity. Former studies using conventional Raman spectroscopy have revealed that the sequence G3(TTAG3)3 at milimolar concentrations in phosphate buffer solution doped with Na+ ions (ionic strength 150 mM) adopts antiparallel conformation regardless of the length of standing at room temperature or annealing, whereas K+ ions cause gradual transition to "3+1" or even parallel conformation. On the other hand, measurements carried out upon sequence AG3(TTAG3)3 at similar concentrations using Photonic Crystal Fibre-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (PCFRS) suggest that in the respective presence of both Na+ and K+ (ionic strength 100 mM), a parallel structure is adopted. The hereby presented work employs conventional Raman spectroscopy and Drop Coating Deposition Raman spectroscopy to examine the sequence AG3(TTAG3)3 at concentrations ranging from units to hundreds of milimoles in strands. It concludes that the structure adopted in the presence of Na+, resp. K+ ions is antiparallel, resp. "3+1", and doesn't change over time despite both long standing and annealing. Two hypotheses about the cause of the differences between the results obtained by PCFRS and...
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Biologically important non-canonical structures of nucleic acids in complexes with cationic porphyrins
Palacký, Jan ; Mojzeš, Peter (advisor) ; Setnička, Vladimír (referee) ; Víglaský, Viktor (referee)
Guanine quadruplexes are a class of unusual nucleic acids conformations based on stacked planar guanine tetrads stabilized via Hoogsteen pairing and cation coordination. They are implicated in numerous cellular processes including replication, recombination or transcription. Guanine quadruplexes are widespread within the human genome but their occurrence is highest in the single stranded guanine-rich regions at telomeres. Telomeric guanine quadruplexes are gaining growing interest due to their ability to inhibit the activity of the telomerase enzyme, which is responsible for the proliferation of tumor cells. Specifically, we investigated the conformational polymorphism of the human core telomeric sequence G3(TTAG3)3 conditioned by the concentration of DNA, metal cations (K+ , Na+ ) and/or annealing. Raman spectroscopy was employed as the primary method for this study because, unlike common spectroscopic methods, it allowed us to monitor the quadruplex structure at very high DNA concentrations mimicking molecular crowding conditions in the cell. We demonstrate that the G3(TTAG3)3 quadruplex switch between the antiparallel and parallel strand alignment as a function of nucleoside and potassium concentration. In addition, we demonstrate that cationic porphyrins can be used as sensitive probes of the quadruplex...
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Raman microspectroscopy of living cells and biological tissues
Moudříková, Šárka ; Mojzeš, Peter (advisor) ; Matthäus, Christian (referee) ; Samek, Ota (referee)
Title: Raman microspectroscopy of living cells and biological tissues Author: Šárka Moudříková Department / Institute: Institute of Physics of Charles University Supervisor of the doctoral thesis: doc. RNDr. Peter Mojzeš, CSc., Institute of Physics of Charles University Abstract: Raman microscopy combines Raman spectroscopy with optical confocal microscopy and thus provides information on chemical composition of a sample with a µm3 resolution. In this thesis, Raman microscopy has been used to study microalgae-unicellular photosynthetic organisms that are greatly relevant for the Earth's environment as well as for biotechnological applications. Raman microscopy of photosynthetic organisms struggles with a highly intensive background of the spectra, which is formed by fluorescence of cellular photosynthetic apparatus. In this thesis, we have developed a fast and reliable photobleaching method that suppresses the unwanted background; this method has enabled us to study intracellular distribution of algal biomolecules such as proteins, starch, lipids and polyphosphate. We have investigated an evolution of these structures during a cell cycle of a model microalga Desmodesmus quadricauda. Next, we have developed a method for quantitative analysis of polyphosphate in a cellular culture of a microalga Chlorella...
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Genomic Data Mining Techniques
Jaša, Petr ; Křivka, Zbyněk (referee) ; Burgetová, Ivana (advisor)
First of all, this thesis sets itself a goal to introduce some common technics for datamining in genomics and as a next step to implement own algorithm like algorithm BLAST. In the concrete, this work is pointed to sequences of DNA. The DNA sequence contains in itself genetic information, which is template for living organism. For explanation this information can be used number of technics. This paper describes algorithm Fasta and algorithms from BLAST family. With these algorithms, it is possible to gain a lot of important information even about such DNA sequences, where only primary structure is known. Principle of these algorithms is based on alignments of one query sequence, which we want to obtain some information from, with many sequences stored in database. According to result alignment, it is possible to determine many features of the query sequence.
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