Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.
How sequencing actually produces a readable order of bases, and why that string is enough to identify an organism.
Panel 16DNA sequencing basics
The whole class in the computer lab running BLAST, which compares an unknown sequence against a global database and ranks what it matches.
ME
A confident top hit that covers a tenth of your sequence means nothing. I would have been fooled yesterday.
Panel 17BLAST computer lab · 2026-09-10
The part that separates a real match from a coincidence. A low E-value means the match is unlikely to be chance, and query coverage tells you how much of your sequence actually lined up.
Panel 18E-value and query coverage · 2026-09-11
Full report: sequence, BLAST result, E-value, coverage, and a statement of what the identification does not prove.
