The translated sequence can then be compared to a database of protein sequences with the hope of finding a strong similarity to a protein of known function, and hence to identify the function of the cloned EST.
(a) True
(b) False
This question was posed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.
My enquiry is from Sequencing cDNA Libraries of Expressed Genes, Submission of Sequences to the Databases in section Collecting & Storing Sequences in Laboratory of Bioinformatics
