title: VIRAPOPS: a forward simulator dedicated to rapidly evolved viral populations.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Daily, mutability and recombination of RNA viruses result in the production of million variants. All these rapid genomic changes directly influence the functional sites of the protein, its 3D structure or its drug resistances. Therefore, it is important to simulate these drastic switches to determine their effects on virus populations. Many computer programs are able to simulate specific variations in DNA genomes, but are generally non-adapted to RNA viruses. They simulate site-specific selection pressures, but rarely pressures on covariant or on higher order correlated sites and no at all on synthetic lethal groups. That is why we felt it important to create VIRAPOPS, a forward simulator that models specific RNA virus functions. It was designed for computational biologists, biologists and virologists.
  
  
  METHODS
  Free binaries are available through a software repository at http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.freeware.html.
authors: Department of Biology, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, MTI, INSERM UMR-S 973, CNRS, UMR7592, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75013 Paris and Atelier de Bio Informatique, F-75005 Paris, France.
authors: Michel
authors: M
authors: Petitjean
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Vanet
mesh_terms: D000998:Antiviral Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019295:Computational Biology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation / Q000235:genetics*; D016679:Genome, Viral; D023281:Genomics; D006678:HIV / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000235:genetics / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans; D012328:RNA Viruses / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D012641:Selection, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D000998:Antiviral Agents; D014764:Viral Proteins