As we started out our project, we didn't know exactly what we were doing. During the Kickoff conference, we began to develop our idea. Soon, we wrote a summary of what our program would accomplish. We produced a pseudo-code to help guide our project.

We began to write code. The program was based from the Sieve of Eratosthenes, which finds all prime numbers up to a given amount. We hoped to use this ability to find patterns in our project. With this program, we would be able to find introns, exons, and specific segments of gene.

For the Project Evaluations, we also created a StarLogo demonstration of the effects of the Human Endogenous Retroviruses (view this program here.) However, at the Evaluations, the model failed to work, and our code didn't impress the judges.

Scrapping the code, we sought help from Mr. Nick Bennett. With his aid, we created the code that we now have.