So we have a BLASTer to see which genes in humans are homologous to genes in drosophila melanogaster, our model organism for cell motility. It works- it just takes a couple of hours to get an output file for 20 genes. Should be no problem to run overnight.
Miriam has been working on a way to verify that the network is working. Currently, she has been eliminating some positives while keeping others, looking at how high up the eliminated positives are in the result. It should be fruitful.
We also looked at how other functionally similar genes we were certain about were similar. We found that all of the gene interactions we thought of as functionally similar had strong edges in the networks. This validates the network as a whole as biologically sound and will further validate our results.