- Go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene to find rat insulin II gene and get its FASTA format sequence
- Go to http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi
- Perform blast (basic blast, nucleotide blast, algorithm parameters) search to find similar sequences in Human using the default parameter values
- Change the values for the following parameters and perform 1 more search
- Expected threshold
- World size
- Match/mismatch scores
What to turn in
- Turn in rat insulin II gene sequence in FASTA format (20 points).
- Turn in the blast search result against Human DNAs using default parameters (70 points).
- Turn in the blast search result against Human DNAs using customized parameters (10 points).
