Conclusion

This project demonstrates some of the interesting ways that protein homologues tell us about our less well-known connections and suggests some interesting areas to continue. The simplest way to improve this is to continue collecting more nucleotide sequences to create a more robust tree with more eukaryotes and bacteria to further reinforce the connections between the two. The next most pressing option is to Blast more proteins from the isoprenyl backbone biosynthesis using multi sequence Blasts as the current experiment only looked at one central protein it may be that peripheral proteins that are moderately conserved may indicate more accurately the evolutionary history of the organisms. As mentioned the primary way to improve the sequence generation is to reintroduce the error calculation to get a better understanding of the relative significance.