Quiz Stuff:

• Low-compexity filter MASKS the regions of low complexity in a query sequence. Low-complexity regions are stretches of DNA/protein sequence that either homopolymeric sequences, small tandem repeats or fragments where one or several residues are overrepresented.
• Entrez in an INTERFACE to access different databases at NCBI. The database to search for organisms' scientific names is Taxonomy database at NCBI.

Bottom Line of Class #5:

• Neighbor-Joining is a fast distance method of tree reconstruction
• ClustalX can calculate NJ trees
• TreeView is an excellent program to visualize and edit trees