Class Exercises, April 2

• Using resources at NCBI:
• Tell me what "reverse gyrase" does, in one sentence
  
• What is the PubMed ID for the 2008 Nucleic Acids Research publication where "Valenti" is the first-author?
  
• What is the favorite model organism for this research group?
• When was this organism's genome first released?
• Is this organism a bacterium (domain Bacteria) or archaeon (domain Archaea)?
• How many genomes are currently available for comparative genomics with this species? (assume species in the same genus are good for comparative genomics)
  
• How many protein genes in this genome?  How many RNAs?
• What is the pubmed id and title of the scientific publication describing this species? (Get from GenBank NC_* file)
• How many genes are predicted to be inovlved in Transcription? Cell Motility? Function Unknown+Not in COGs? 
  
• How many large regions of genes are not in COGs?