Parametric inference of recombination in HIV genomes

Details Parametric inference of recombination in HIV genomes Parametric inference of recombination in HIV genomes

2005-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0512019v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Genomics

20 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

Recombination is an important event in the evolution of HIV. It affects the global spread of the pandemic as well as evolutionary escape from host immune response and from drug therapy within single patients. Comprehensive computational methods are needed for detecting recombinant sequences in large databases, and for inferring the parental sequences. We present a hidden Markov model to annotate a query sequence as a recombinant of a given set of aligned sequences. Parametric inference is used to determine all optimal annotations for all parameters of the model. We show that the inferred annotations recover most features of established hand-curated annotations. Thus, parametric analysis of the hidden Markov model is feasible for HIV full-length genomes, and it improves the detection and annotation of recombinant forms. All computational results, reference alignments, and C++ source code are available at http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/recombination/.

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