Abstract:
Molecular analysis has become one of the major tools used for viral outbreak investigation and transmission network inference. We present two novel methods for accurate i...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Molecular analysis has become one of the major tools used for viral outbreak investigation and transmission network inference. We present two novel methods for accurate identification of transmission clusters and sources of infection for highly heterogeneous viruses such as HIV and HCV. Validation on data obtained from HCV outbreaks shows that the proposed algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art consensus-based methods both in true and false positive rates for transmission prediction, as well as in accuracy of source identification for outbreaks.
Published in: 2015 IEEE 5th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS)
Date of Conference: 15-17 October 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 December 2015
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