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  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology

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  • Traditional sequence alignment methods struggle with viral genome-wide comparative analysis due to sequence divergence.
  • Alignment-free methods are gaining traction for whole genome comparison and phylogenetic tree reconstruction.
  • The Natural Vector (NV) representation has shown success in studying viral phylogeny using nucleotide sequences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the utility of viral proteomes, rather than genomes, for determining viral phylogeny.
  • To develop and evaluate an alignment-free method using protein sequences for viral classification and evolutionary relationship analysis.
  • To compare the performance of proteome-based versus genome-based viral classification.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Natural Vector (NV) representation for protein sequences.
  • Constructed a 60-dimensional protein space using the NV representation and Hausdorff distance.
  • Analyzed evolutionary relationships of 4021 viruses from the NCBI RefSeq database based on whole proteomes.
  • Employed natural graphical representation to reconstruct viral phylogeny.

Main Results:

  • The proposed proteome-based NV method demonstrated efficiency and accuracy in classifying viruses.
  • Achieved high accuracy rates for Baltimore II viruses: 95.9% for family, 95.7% for subfamily, and 96.5% for genus labels.
  • Proteome-based classification outperformed genome-based methods when reliable protein sequences were abundant.
  • Proteome-based classification accuracy remained comparable to genome-based methods in other cases.

Conclusions:

  • Viral proteomes, analyzed via the NV representation and Hausdorff distance, provide an effective approach for viral classification and phylogenetic analysis.
  • The proteome-based method offers high accuracy, particularly for well-characterized viral groups.
  • This study highlights the advantage of using proteomes for viral evolutionary studies, especially when extensive protein sequence data is available.