Correlation of amino acid preference and mammalian viral genome type.

Motivation: In the event of an outbreak of a disease caused by an initially unknown pathogen, the ability to characterize anonymous sequences prior to isolation and culturing of the pathogen will be helpful. We show that it is possible to classify viral sequences by genome type (dsDNA, ssDNA, ssRNA positive strand, ssRNA negative strand, retroid) using amino acid distribution.

Results: In this paper we describe the results of analysis of amino acid preference in mammalian viruses.