Yes, I completely agree, it's been excellent ! I hope there will
be a follow-up session (and that I can find the time to contribute
some thoughts as well :-)
On the issue of
"what degree of sequence similarity implies a functional or
evolutionary relationship ?
I'd like to point you to
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Lectures/pearson2.html
(mirrored at
http://merlin.mbcr.bcm.tmc.edu:8001/bcd/Lectures/pearson2.html
http://www.biotech.ist.unige.it/bcd/Lectures/pearson2.html )
where we had some discussion with Bill Pearson about the issue.
Anyway, everyone is welcome to browse our Hypertext Book, at
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/welcome.html
(and the mirrors); in particular Ch.2, which was updated + released
one week ago, and deals with Networking, incl. databanks.
best wishes,
Georg Fuellen / VSNS BioComputing Division
fuellen@dali.Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, fuellen@MIT.EDU
http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/techfak/persons/fuellen/georgF.html