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Generating Minimal Models of H1N1 NS1 Gene Sequences Using Alignment-Based and Alignment-Free Algorithms.

Meng Fang, Jiawei Xu, Nan Sun, Stephen S-T Yau

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Article in Genes, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Meng FangInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4122-1518
Jiawei XuQiuzhen College, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Nan SunDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Stephen S-T YauDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7634-7981

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Abstract

For virus classification and tracing, one idea is to generate minimal models from the gene sequences of each virus group for comparative analysis within and between classes, as well as classification and tracing of new sequences. The starting point of defining a minimal model for a group of gene sequences is to find their longest common sequence (LCS), but this is a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem. Therefore, we applied some heuristic approaches of finding LCS, as well as some of the newer methods of treating gene sequences, including multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and k-mer natural vector (NV) encoding. To evaluate our algorithms, a five-fold cross validation classification scheme on a dataset of H1N1 virus non-structural protein 1 (NS1) gene was analyzed. The results indicate that the MSA-based algorithm has the best performance measured by classification accuracy, while the NV-based algorithm exhibits advantages in the time complexity of generating minimal models.

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Influenza A Virus, H1N1 SubtypeAlgorithmsSequence Alignmentlongest common sequenceminimal modelmultiple sequence alignmentnatural vectorvirus tracing

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PMID36672928
PMCPMC9858667

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