ANSWERS to HOMEWORK 5

1. • The command to untar the liverseq.tar is tar xvf liverseq.tar.
   • To create the reverse complement of the sequences, the parts highlighted with red in the script ReverseCom.pl were modified.
   • To find palindromes from the sequences, the parts highlighted with red in the script palindrome.pl were modified.
   • To translate sequences into peptides, the parts highlighted with red in the script transeq.pl were modified.
   • You could use <STDIN> to make your program more flexible. The parts highlighted with red in the script emboss.pl were modified.

2. if statement could be used to select the oligos whose GC% are between 40 and 60, as seen in the revised oligos.pl. The oligos found from the given sequence were in the table.