Cow Kinesin

Bos taurus

I used the first 350 amino acids from the Drosophilia melanogaster kinesin heavy chain protein with the acession number P17210 for all of the searches.

• When using e!Ensemble Cow BLAST, 178 hits were retrieved with E-values ranging from 4.6e-203 to 8.7. There were 161 hits that have an E-value of less then 0.005.
• When using PsiBlast, there was 80 hits by the second iteration and no new sequences above the 0.005 threshold by the third iteration.

I feel that the e!Ensemble website is a great resource for blasting as the interface gives you more options for arranging your results after the search is done then NCBI. Still after learning how to do BLAST search at the NCBI website it is difficult to adjust my research strategy.

For more information about the Cow genome:

NCBI Cow Genome Resources

Bovine Genome Project

Scientist to Start the Bovine Genome Project (March 4, 2003)