Statistical test relates pathogen mutation to infectious disease progression
Ryosuke Omori and Jianhong Wu develop an inductive algorithm to study site-specific nucleotide frequencies using a multi-strain susceptible-infective-removed (SIR) model to better understand infectious disease epistemology, pathogen evolution, and population dynamics. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Nucleic acid sequencing methods, which determine the order of nucleotides in DNA fragments, are rapidly progressing. These processes yield large quantities…