The famous biologist, Professor P.I. Pette, has been studying Salmonella in her lab. She has obtained the following sequence from a novel pathogenic strain: salDNA.fna included in your project files. Prof. Pette obtained this from a region unique to Salmonella. She believes it is involved in pathogenisis, and may be from pathogenicity island SPI1.

Then use your code to help Prof Pette determine the function of this sequence. Identify any putative genes, and then blast them at NCBI BLAST. Note you will need to run longestORFNoncoding on this sequence to determine a good threshold for it.

Using the links which blast gives you determine the name and function of your mystery gene(s). In your Crit C document, write a paragraph explaining what you have found.

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