1. Seeing the forest for the trees

2. Training Lumberjacks

3. Learning objectives Understand how to represent data and determine relatedness. {Recognizing trees in different forms} Learn how to construct a relationship tree and interpreted the data. {Personality profiler bioinformatic exercise}

4. Family Trees

5. Other types of trees.

6. Different representations of the same data

7. Goal: Develop a web application to introduce non-majors or intro-level majors to tree building and data representation

8. Developing a peptide profile Utilize a series of “personality” questions to generate a peptide sequence reflecting a student’s perspective on a variety of topics –Are you a good singer? Yes –Add ELVIS to string of letters representing a growing peptide sequence No – Add RITNEY to string of letters representing a growing peptide sequence In the shower – Add W to string of letters representing a growing peptide sequence

9. How similar are you and Elvis? YOU

10. Develop tutorial explaining tree construction Each individual in database is represented by a peptide sequence –ELVIS = ELVISISALIVEANDWELL Provide subsequent tutorial explaining how the tree was drawn using character differences in strings Could add subsequent “canned” exercise describing relationships among diverse biological organisms

11. How To Lie With Trees

12. Subject 3