Scoring and protein alignments (continued)

Please go through at least three problems of the problem set (see below).

Topics

• Tarynn Witten talks about a supercomputer model of the cat cortex
• Scoring sequence alignments (general)
• Aligning protein sequences with PAM and BLOSUM tables
• Practical Blast
• Discussion of Problem Set
• Discussion of the nature of Blast

• Notes: Scoring and Protein Alignments (repeat of Wednesday's)
• Outside reading (optional): Bill Pearson's Tutorial on protein sequence comparison and protein evolution
• Problem Set (revised)

Back to Research Simulation Main Page