Novel Bioinformatic Methods to Determine the Link Between Genomic Complexity of Hepatitis Viruses and Liver Disease Phenotypes

Grant number: 1060199 | Funding period: 2014 - 2016

Completed

Abstract

Bioinformatics is a discipline concerned with the study of how information is stored and used in biological systems. Here we develop bioinformatic tools to study how hepatitis viruses evolve during an infection and how these infections cause severe liver diseases.

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