Exercises (pdf)
Phylogeny
A common task nowadays is to classify a newly discovered protein. To classify a new protein we have to relate it to other (already known) proteins. After the collection of related (homologous) proteins (Homology Search), the sequences are related to each other (Alignment) and some criteria (e.g. Neighbor-Joining, Maximum Likelihood) is used to calculate the degree of relatedness between the proteins. The results will be printed as a phylogenetic tree.
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