Assignment for Wednesday's class:

Prepare for midterm.

Assignment for Friday

Complete Assignment #6 part 1 (you can leave out the histograms, but you should have a folder in your directory on the cluster that contains the results of a blast search of one genome against a distantly related one (using the *.faa file).

Assignment for next Monday

Assignments for Wednesday

Think about the question how new genes are created, and how genome size can increase. Everyone should have at least three distinct mechanisms.

Read The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes

Questions on commandline blast

Questions re. take home exam #3

Questions regarding midterm.

ELSE

sequence space