A practical introduction to viral phylogenetics

Exercises

Section 2: the first batch

A few days later, and more patients have begun to arrive at the hospital. You have been sent a FASTA containing all four sequences.

Click here to download the FASTA file

You can use Nextclade to analyse these sequences too.


Question: (On paper,) draw a phylogenetic tree showing the relationships between these four sequences. Annotate the tree with the mutations that have occurred.




Note: don’t use the NextClade “tree” button for this – apart from anything else, it won’t work!