This walkthrough serve as a simple introduction to key functionalities of NCBI BLAST

An introductory exercise using BLAST to annotate a region in the Drosophila melanogaster genome. Students can use this exercise to gain familiarity with performing BLAST searches and interpreting BLAST output. An answer key is provided for instructors.

This is a PowerPoint presentation describing the recommended strategies for annotating a D. virlis fosmid. The homology-based annotation strategy should also be applicable to annotation of D. erecta and D. mojavensis projects.

This worksheet will guide you through a series of basic steps that have been found to work well for annotation of species closely related to Drosophila melanogaster. It provides a technique that can also be the foundation of annotation in other, more divergent species but in those cases other special techniques will probably be needed.

This document is the revised annotation report that GEP students will use to report their annotation results to the GEP.

This document is a more in depth description of the evidence based annotation technique used by the GEP. This document is designed to complement and extend the basic technique described in the Annotation for D. virilis powerpoint.

A walkthrough that illustrates how students can use Consed to identify problematic regions in a genome assembly and strategies students can use to address these problems.

A training document similar to An Introduction to Consed, this document contains a more detailed walkthrough that explores additional functions available in Consed

Students can practice using Consed by working on two Drosophila projects. This exercise poses various challenges that students may encounter when working on their own projects.

This document contains some advice on the strategies students can use to resolve common problems they may encounter during finishing.

Students should complete all items on this checklist before submitting the project back to the GEP.