Algorithm for History Reconstruction of Viral Recombination Events: Preliminary Results

Abstract

An accurate understanding of the evolutionary history of virus species could help in the development of prevention measures or new treatments. Most current tools offer phylogenetic analysis focused on mutations as the main evolutionary mechanism and ignore inconsistencies caused by recombination events. This work intends to describe an algorithm for history reconstruction of recombination events detected from a set of viral genomic sequences. Preliminary results are provided from the analysis of some sequences of Human Adenovirus D with the proposed algorithm.