Shivum Desai Journal Week 4

Exploring HIV Evolution: An Opportunity For Research- Week 4 Continuation

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to see if the HIV selected from four random subjects was originally from the same source of the virus.

Methods

1. First off the data files "visit_1_S1_S9.txt" and "visit_1_S10_S15.txt" were uploaded onto the Biology Workbench. In the nucleic acid section
2. The next step was to select 3 clones from 4 different subject, resulting in 12 total sequences.
3. These sequences then were analyzed using the CLUSTALw tool which allowed for multiple sequence alignment and the generation of a distance tree comparing all 12 sequences.

Data Files

HIV Sequences

Useful Links

• Shivum Desai
• Week 4 Assignment Page
• Zachary T. Goldstein
• Week 4 Shared Journal Page

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Dr. Dahlquist for her help on this assignment. As well as the help of Zachary T. Goldstein who was my partner in this experiment.