Students use the HIV Problem Space on the BioQuest BEDROCK Website to investigate whether a specific HIV mutation can be correlated with a decline in immune system function. In order to perform this analysis, students must generate and analyze multiple sequence alignments of HIV sequences generated from the ALIVE study.
Investigating a Mutation in HIV-1
- Last Reviewed: June 1, 2006
- Last Updated: June 1, 2006
- April Bednarski, Anton E. Weisstein, Sam Donovan
- Created: June 1, 2006
- Curriculum Section: Gene Annotation
- Curriculum Type: Lesson with Exercises
- NIBLSE Competencies: C4
- Topic Tags: Multiple Sequence Alignment, Similarity Search