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Comput Biol Chem. 2011 Dec 30;36C:23-30. [Epub ahead of print]
Computational model for analyzing the evolutionary patterns of the neuraminidase gene of influenza A/H1N1.
Ahn I, Son HS.
Source
Supercomputing Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 245 Daehangno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejon 305-806, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
In this study, we performed computer simulations to evaluate the changes of selection potentials of codons in influenza A/H1N1 from 1999 to 2009. We artificially generated the sequences by using the transition matrices of positively selected codons over time, and their similarities against the database of influenzavirus A genus were determined by BLAST search. This is the first approach to predict the evolutionary direction of influenza A virus (H1N1) by simulating the codon substitutions over time. We observed that the BLAST results showed the high similarities with pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in 2009, suggesting that the classical human-origin influenza A/H1N1 isolated before 2009 might contain some selection potentials of swine-origin viruses. Computer simulations using the time series codon substitution patterns resulted dramatic changes of BLAST results in influenza A/H1N1, providing a possibility of developing a method for predicting the viral evolution in silico.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22261151
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Computational model for analyzing the evolutionary patterns of the neuraminidase gene of influenza A/H1N1.
Ahn I, Son HS.
Source
Supercomputing Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 245 Daehangno, Yuseong-Gu, Daejon 305-806, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
In this study, we performed computer simulations to evaluate the changes of selection potentials of codons in influenza A/H1N1 from 1999 to 2009. We artificially generated the sequences by using the transition matrices of positively selected codons over time, and their similarities against the database of influenzavirus A genus were determined by BLAST search. This is the first approach to predict the evolutionary direction of influenza A virus (H1N1) by simulating the codon substitutions over time. We observed that the BLAST results showed the high similarities with pandemic influenza A/H1N1 in 2009, suggesting that the classical human-origin influenza A/H1N1 isolated before 2009 might contain some selection potentials of swine-origin viruses. Computer simulations using the time series codon substitution patterns resulted dramatic changes of BLAST results in influenza A/H1N1, providing a possibility of developing a method for predicting the viral evolution in silico.
Copyright ? 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PMID:
22261151
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
