Viral Informatics: Tools for Understanding the Evolution of biology's Most Varied Genomes
Siobain Duffy
from: Virus Evolution: Current Research and Future Directions (Edited by: Scott C. Weaver, Mark Denison, Marilyn Roossinck and Marco Vignuzzi). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2016) Pages: 29-60.
Abstract
Our understanding of viral molecular evolution is being advanced by a combination of massive amounts of sequencing data and statistical algorithms that can extract information from them. Classic and modern approaches to phylogenetics, population genetics and other evolutionary analyses are reviewed. The sometimes conflicting language and desires of computational scientists and virologists as they approach the same issue are discussed. It has never been easier to accurately model viral molecular evolution, except that there are few suggestions or guidelines for how to conduct those analyses, and thus there is potential for garbage-in, garbage-out results that obfuscate the study of viral evolution read more ...
