DR_SEQAN 1.5

:: DESCRIPTION

DR_SEQAN (Drug Resistance SEQuence ANalyzer) is a tool to analyze RT and PR sequences. The program output includes a list containing all of the amino acid changes found in the query sequence in comparison with the sequence of a wild-type HIV-1 strain. Translation of codons containing nucleotide mixtures can result in potential ambiguities or heterogeneities in the amino acid sequence. The program identifies all possible combinations of 2 or 3 amino acids that derive from translation of triplets containing nucleotide mixtures. In addition, when ambiguities affect codons relevant for drug resistance, DR_SEQAN allows the user to select the appropriate mutation to be considered by the program’s drug resistance interpretation algorithm. Resistance is predicted using a rule-based algorithm, whose efficiency and accuracy has been tested with a large set of drug susceptibility data. Drug resistance predictions given by DR_SEQAN were consistent with phenotypic data and coherent with predictions provided by other publicly available algorithms. In addition, the program output provides two tables showing published drug susceptibility data and references for mutations and combinations of mutations found in the analyzed sequence. These data are retrieved from an integrated relational database, implemented in Microsoft Access, which includes two sets of non-redundant core tables (one for combinations of mutations in the PR and the other for combinations in the RT).

::DEVELOPER

César Garriga: cgarriga@msc.es; Luis Menéndez-Arias: lmenendez@cbm.uam.es

:: SCREENSHOTS

:: REQUIREMENTS

• Windows

:: DOWNLOAD

DR_SEQAN

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

César Garriga and Luis Menéndez-Arias
DR_SEQAN: a PC/Windows-based software to evaluate drug resistance using human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genotypes
BMC Infect Dis. 2006; 6: 44.