Additional Reading:

Poehlsgaard, Jacob, and Stephen Douthwaite. "The bacterial ribosome as a target for antibiotics." Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, no. 11 (2005): 870-881.

Ramakrishnan, V., 2002. Ribosome structure and the mechanism of translation. Cell, 108(4), pp.557-572.

Additional Reading for Boxes:

Eddy, SR 2004 Where did the BLOSUM62 alignment score matrix come from? Nature Biotechnol. 22: 1035-1036

Kerfield, CA and KM Scott, 2011.  Using BLAST to teach “e-value-tionary” concepts. PLoS Biology 9: e10001014