Lab Homework (a partial list)

Week of September 25

Consider the sequence: sequence for 9/25

1. What is the top hit...
   1. from the nr database, organism and gene (not chromosome)?
   2. from the db.txt database?
      
2. If you align the two genes end to end, what is the percent identity?
3. Show a dotplot of the two sequences.
   
4. Why do you get different results from the two databases?
   
5. Where (physically) is...
   1. the nr database?
   2. the db.txt database?
6. Are these sequences homologous?