started @ 6:35 PM on 9/9/07

6:36 PM: "BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs that explore all of the available sequence databases for protein or DNA"

6:37 PM: " Unfortunately, it's much easier to read the book of life than to understand it"

6:42 PM: "The entire DNA of an organism is called its genome, and genomes are sometimes called "the book of life" (especially with respect to the human genome). "

stopped @ 6:54 PM on 9/9/07

started @ 11:53 PM on 9/9/07

done @ 12:57 AM on 9/10/07