In the last part of the project, you need to organize and interpret your results, and draw some kind of conclusion from it, in a written report.

• Introduction
  • Where did your sequences come from?
  • What do you know about the organisms the sequences comes from?
  • What do you hope to gain by this analysis?
• Results
  • How did the analysis proceed?
    • What were the results in each part of the analysis? What do they mean? (Interpret them!)
    • What were the uncertainties or problems in the analysis?
    • How well did different parts of the analysis agree? What was convincing and what was not?
  • What kind of organisms do you seem to have?
    • How is are they related to the other organisms in the dataset?
    • Is this consistent with what you know about the organisms microbiologically?
• Discussion
  • What does the phylogenetic placement of these organisms tell you about them?
    • Are they similar to their relatives? How well-defined are these placements?
  • What can you predict about these organisms based on their phylogenetic placements?
  • What can't you predict about these organisms based on their phylogenetic placements?
• Citations!

If you got significant help from another student on the computer-ology of this project, please include a note in your write-up telling me who helped, so I can give some trivial token of appreciation to that student, in the form of extra points on their Term Project.