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Spidermonkey: rapid detection of co-evolving sites using Bayesian graphical modelsArt F Y Poon
Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, USA
Bioinformatics 24:1949-50. 2008..data-monkey.org and as a stand-alone component of the phylogenetic software package HyPhy, which is freely distributed on the web (http://www.hyphy.org) as precompiled binaries and open source...
Parsing social network survey data from hidden populations using stochastic context-free grammarsArt F Y Poon
Division of Comparative Pathology and Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e6777. 2009..Moreover, current analytical models rely on unrealistic assumptions, e.g., that the traversal of social networks can be modeled by a Markov chain rather than a branching process...
An evolutionary-network model reveals stratified interactions in the V3 loop of the HIV-1 envelopeArt F Y Poon
Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e231. 2007..We extend our model to detect interactions between the V3 and C4 domains of the HIV-1 envelope, and account for the uncertainty in mapping substitutions to the tree with a parametric bootstrap...
Mapping protease inhibitor resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 sequence polymorphisms within patientsArt F Y Poon
Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
J Virol 81:13598-607. 2007..These positions are under strong positive selection in the PI-naive patient population, implying that other factors can produce spurious associations with resistance, e.g., mutational escape from the immune response...
Adaptation to human populations is revealed by within-host polymorphisms in HIV-1 and hepatitis C virusArt F Y Poon
Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS Pathog 3:e45. 2007....
Evolutionary interactions between N-linked glycosylation sites in the HIV-1 envelopeArt F Y Poon
Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e11. 2007..This represents a potential vulnerability of rapidly evolving HIV-1 populations that may provide useful glycan-based targets for neutralizing antibodies...
Evolutionary fingerprinting of genesSergei L Kosakovsky Pond
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
Mol Biol Evol 27:520-36. 2010....
A maximum likelihood method for detecting directional evolution in protein sequences and its application to influenza A virusSergei L Kosakovsky Pond
Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Mol Biol Evol 25:1809-24. 2008..We propose a simple descriptive classification of directionally evolving sites into 5 groups based on the temporal distribution of residue frequencies and document known functional correlates, such as immune escape or host adaptation...
An evolutionary model-based algorithm for accurate phylogenetic breakpoint mapping and subtype prediction in HIV-1Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond
Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
PLoS Comput Biol 5:e1000581. 2009....
Datamonkey 2010: a suite of phylogenetic analysis tools for evolutionary biologyWayne Delport
Department of Pathology, Antiviral Research Center, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Bioinformatics 26:2455-7. 2010..Here, we summarize the analyses options currently available on Datamonkey, and provide guidelines for their use in evolutionary biology. Availability and documentation: http://www.datamonkey.org...
Detecting signatures of selection from DNA sequences using DatamonkeyArt F Y Poon
Antiviral Research Center, Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Methods Mol Biol 537:163-83. 2009..org) provides a user-friendly web interface to a wide collection of state-of-the-art statistical techniques for estimating dS and dN and identifying codons and lineages under selection, even in the presence of recombinant sequences...
Functional origins of fitness effect-sizes of compensatory mutations in the DNA bacteriophage phiX174Art F Y Poon
Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
Evolution 60:2032-43. 2006....
Herpes simplex virus type 2 acquisition during recent HIV infection does not influence plasma HIV levelsEdward R Cachay
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92103 8681, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 47:592-6. 2008..5 log10 copies/mL over 11 days). The HSV-2 incidence rate was high in our cohort of recently HIV-infected individuals; however, HSV-2 acquisition did not significantly change the plasma HIV dynamics and CD4 cell levels...
Selection in coastal Synechococcus (cyanobacteria) populations evaluated from environmental metagenomesVera Tai
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e24249. 2011..By developing a means to analyze population diversity data from these environmental metagenomes, we have provided the first insight into the role of selection in the evolution of Synechococcus, a globally significant primary producer...
Immune-driven recombination and loss of control after HIV superinfectionHendrik Streeck
Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
J Exp Med 205:1789-96. 2008..These data also support a role for cellular immune pressures in driving the selection of new recombinant forms of HIV...
