Phylogenetic Analysis of Viral Quasispecies : AV Akademikerverlag : 9783639452273 : 3639452275 : 16 Aug 2012 : Revision with unchanged content. A new approach in the analysis of viral evolution is presented in this book, an approach that merges Phylogenetic analysis and Bioinformatic techniques. Patterns of viral evolution are inferred from serially-sampled sequence data, i.e., sequence data obtained from strains isolated at consecutive time points from a single patient or host. Traditional phylogenetic methods assume a tree-like evolutionary model, while many RNA viruses have the capacity to exchange genetic material with one another using a process called re-combination. A genealogy involving recombination is best described by a net-work structure. A more general approach was implemented in a new compu-tational tool, Sliding MinPD, one that is mindful of the sampling times of the input sequences and that reconstructs the viral evolutionary relationships in the form of a network struc