Computationally Comparing Different Genomes

Background Information

Objective:  To have the user compare two very similar organisms to familiarize themself with CoGe while also learning a about evolution.

Difficulty:  Easy

Estimated Time:  10 minutes

Lesson

Introduction

     A human genome contains over 3 billion base pairs.  If a scientist wants to identify similar portions of DNA in a human genome to a chimpanzee genome, which is also over 3 billion base pairs long, the scientist would need to use a computer program.  This is where CoGe comes in.  CoGe