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BIOINFORMATICS
2005
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13 years 4 months ago
An automated genotyping system for analysis of HIV-1 and other microbial sequences
Motivation: Genetic analysis of HIV-1 is important not only for vaccine development, but also to guide treatment strategies, track the emergence of new viral variants and ensure t...
Tulio de Oliveira, Koen Deforche, Sharon Cassol, M...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Accurate and efficient gp120 V3 loop structure based models for the determination of HIV-1 co-receptor usage
Background: HIV-1 targets human cells expressing both the CD4 receptor, which binds the viral envelope glycoprotein gp120, as well as either the CCR5 (R5) or CXCR4 (X4) co-recepto...
Majid Masso, Iosif I. Vaisman
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Using genomic signatures for HIV-1 sub-typing
Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), exhibits very high genetic diversity with different var...
Aridaman Pandit, Somdatta Sinha
APBC
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Evolution of Relative Synonymous Codon Usage in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1
Mutation in HIV-1 is extremely rapid, a consequence of a low-fidelity viral reverse transcription process. The envelope gene has been shown to accumulate substitutions at a rate o...
Peter L. Meintjes, Allen G. Rodrigo
GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Sufficiency verification of HIV-1 pathogenesis based on multi-agent simulation
Researchers of HIV-1 are today, still unable to determine exactly the biological mechanisms that cause AIDS. Various mechanisms have been hypothesized and their existences have be...
Zaiyi Guo, Hann Kwang Han, Joc Cing Tay