Evolution of drug resistance in HIV protease.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
Published Date:

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Drug resistance is a critical problem limiting effective antiviral therapy for HIV/AIDS. Computational techniques for predicting drug resistance profiles from genomic data can accelerate the appropriate choice of therapy. These techniques can also be used to identify protease mutants for experimental studies of resistance and thereby assist in the development of next-generation therapies. Few studies, however, have assessed the evolution of resistance from genotype-phenotype data.

Authors

  • Dhara Shah
    Department of Computer Science, 25 Park Place, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
  • Christopher Freas
    Department of Computer Science, 25 Park Place, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.
  • Irene T Weber
    Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Robert W Harrison
    Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA.