Monday:
Put the finishing touches on the poster and sent it to be printed. Also worked on finding resources for final report.
Tuesday:
Presented poster around lunchtime, and worked on debugging the most basic conservational location method.
Wednesday:
Completed two methods: the most basic conservational location method as well as a method using percentages.
The most basic method uses the most evolved species as a baseline and compares the distance of a motif from the gene in question for each species to the baseline species.
The second method converts the distance into a percentage by dividing the distance by the overall length of the non-coding DNA in each species.
Thursday:
Completed two more methods using the same means of comparison as those completed yesterday, but with a pairwise procession down the list of species.
Instead of using the first species as a baseline, the first species is compared to the second species, then the second species is compared to the third species, and the third species is compared to the fourth species, and so on down the list.
Friday:
Wrote another two methods that compare the entire list to the first species.
