It&#x27;s called grad school ;)<p>There&#x27;s tools like BLAST that can use this data to answer questions like &quot;is there a copy of influenza virus in pig DNA&quot;. It&#x27;s basically a fast fuzz search engine.<p>If you grab a lot of these, you can concatenate pairs of genomes, estimate ancestry distance based on compression ratio, and then produce a phylogenetic tree.<p>Project Rosalind (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosalind.info&#x2F;problems&#x2F;list-view&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosalind.info&#x2F;problems&#x2F;list-view&#x2F;</a>) has a series of simple programming problems related to bioinformatics.