Introduction to Bioinformatics (Fall 2003)
Questionnaire on notes: Protein alignment, Progress
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I. Basic Information

A. Your name 
II. Progress in Scenario 3
A. Do you know from your own tests whether filtering is important in determining the differences between the output of the two versions of BlastN? 

B. Do you feel you have a good handle on how homegrown BlastN differs from the NCBI implementation? 

C. What progress have you made in getting homegrown BlastN to give you E-values? 

D. What progress have you made in understanding the inability of BlastN to find the similarity between DG47 and lef?  

E. Please choose up to four study questions from the notes What's wrong with BlastN? that you would most like discussed in class:

SQ1  SQ2  SQ3  SQ4  SQ5  SQ6  SQ7  SQ8 
Comments for questions II.A through II.D:
III. Protein alignments
A. How comfortable are you with reading a PAM frequency table (e.g. Table 2) and a log odds table (e.g. Fig. 3)? 

B. How comfortable are you with the distinctions between the different versions of PAM and between the different versions of BLOSUM? 

C. How comfortable are you calculating the score of an amino acid alignment? 

D. Please choose up to two study questions from the notes Scoring and protein alignments that you would most like discussed in class:

SQ7  SQ8  SQ9  SQ10 
Comments for questions III.A through III.C:
IV. Miscellaneous
A. Put here any miscellaneous comments, questions, suggestions, concerns you may have.
 

Thanks!

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