Memorandum

 

To:	BioInformatics Interns
From:	Internship Coordinator
Subject:	Welcome + Overview of Assignment

Congratulations on continuing as an intern in the National Institutes of Health's Bioinformatics Internship Program (BIP). As you know, you will focus on Avian Influenza (AI) work.   But before embarking on that project, there are skills that you will need to know - such as how to find and compare molecular sequences and how to organize the sequences into a phylogenetic tree for evaluating their evolutionary relationship.  You likely will use your influenza data set in your later work to help identify the source of an outbreak or to determine the appropriateness of a vaccine.

We have designed a set of activities to prepare you.  These activities are described by your project leader in the subsequent emails.  More detailed instructions for these tasks will be covered in the Requirements for these assignments. 

After you complete these crucial assignments, your BIP Project Leader will introduce you to the Avian Influenza assignments.

Before you begin - be certain to explore the Background and Required Software tabs in this section.