Bioinformatics Tools for Forming Phylogentic Trees

Print this page and cut out the sequences

Take the 18 DNA sequences and try to group them based on similarity of sequences. Put them in small clusters, but put similar clusters near each other.

For example, if you have these sequences:
AAAAAA
TTAATT
AAATAA
TAAATT

You might create these 2 clusters:
AAAAAA
AAATAA

TTAATT
TAAATT

Go ahead and try to cluster these 18 the best you can.

 


 

BLAST these sequences

 


Produce a Tree with the sequences

 

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