Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-25-2015

Publication Title

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volume

12

Pages

23-27

Abstract

As sequencing technologies continue to drop in price and increase in throughput, new challenges emerge for the management and accessibility of genomic sequence data. We have developed a pipeline for facilitating the storage, retrieval, and subsequent analysis of molecular data, integrating both sequence and metadata. Taking a polyglot approach involving multiple languages, libraries, and persistence mechanisms, sequence data can be aggregated from publicly available and local repositories. Data are exposed in the form of a RESTful web service, formatted for easy querying, and retrieved for downstream analyses. As a proof of concept, we have developed a resource for annotated HIV-1 sequences. Phylogenetic analyses were conducted for >6,000 HIV-1 sequences revealing spatial and temporal factors influence the evolution of the individual genes uniquely. Nevertheless, signatures of origin can be extrapolated even despite increased globalization. The approach developed here can easily be customized for any species of interest.

Identifier

10.4137/EBO.S32757

Comments

Author Posting © The Authors, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of Libertas Academica for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics 2016:12 23–27, http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S32757.

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