Abstract
HIV-1 viruses, which are predominant in the family of HIV viruses, have strong pathogenicity and infectivity. They can evolve into many different variants in a very short time. In this study, we propose a new and effective alignment-free method for the phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 viruses using complete genome sequences. Our method combines the position distribution information and the counts of the k-mers together. We also propose a metric to determine the optimal k value. We name our method the Position-Weighted k-mers (PWkmer) method. Validation and comparison with the Robinson–Foulds distance method and the modified bootstrap method on a benchmark dataset show that our method is reliable for the phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1 viruses. PWkmer can resolve within-group variations for different known subtypes of Group M of HIV-1 viruses. This method is simple and computationally fast for whole genome phylogenetic analysis.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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