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Identifying discriminative amino acids within the hemagglutinin of human influenza A H5N1 virus using a decision tree.
IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - 1 Nov 2008
Wu Li-Ching, Horng Jorng-Tzong, Huang Hsien-Da, Chen Wei-Long
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Recently, the H5N1 virus has had an increasingly important impact on human life. This is because more and more people are becoming infected with this virus, and the possibility of a serious pandemic with human to human transmission is looming. This might occur if the genome of this influenza virus mutates either by antigenic drift or by antigenic shift, especially if there is a mutation of the hemagglutinin (HA)...
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