. Given the following DNA sequence: GGTGTAAAGAATCTT
a. Construct a keyword tree
b. Construct a suffix tree
2. How many different nucleotide sequences may code for the following protein sequence:
Arg-Lys-Pro-Val-Ser-Ile-Ala?
3. Given the following MSA (Multiple Sequence Alignment), describe (in pseudocode) how you would determine which positions contained informative sites :
AT-ACGCCGATGCAT
ATTACGACGATGCTT
ATTACGACGAAGCTT
AT-ACGACGATGCAT
4. Describe how gene finding algorithms work. Include a description of all the elements that they search for to help determine whether or not a sequence is a protein coding gene
5. What is BLAST? Describe how the algorithm works. Be sure to include any statistical measures that are used in determining the strength of any BLAST results.
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