Programming Assignment 1	Due: Feb 25, Wednesday
Points: 30

Motif finding Assignment.

Groups:
Greg, Stephen, Nathan
Luis, Richie, Azhar
Ray, Griffin, Vikas
Sally, Srividya, Vaibhav


Find a six-mer motif in the folowing five strings:
aggg>tattcg<ctggctctgaaactat
ggcgttg>atctgg<ggtcagctagtct
acgccttgatgt>ctttgg<gttacgac
tg>aggtcg<tgataccacttacaattt
ctgaccatcgaata>attaca<agcgag

Both the branch and bound algorithms, Motif-search and Median-string-find, should be developed to extract the motif.

Submission: Hard copy of well-commented code with sample run on the following example, and the run time of each algorithm, for each group.
A short description of individual tasks done (one page each member, agreed upon by the others in the group).

ANSWER:
atttcg: consensus

tattcg: l-mers
atctgg
ctttgg
aggtcg
attaca