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| ==March 2nd, 2009==
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| ===Tasks===
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| # Made more updates to my webpage
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| # Started making a presentation for my job talk
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| # Assisted Carl in writing a grant proposal to extend on our work on reassortments in the Flu genome.
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| ===Papers Read===
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| # [[Media:rabadan2007.pdf|Non-random reassortment in human influenza A viruses]]. R. Rabadan, A.J. Levine and M. Krasnitz.
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| The basic idea in this paper is that if you assume constant
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| rate of mutational drift in different segments of the same strain (an
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| assumption that seems to be true on a coarse level for some segments, but
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| not for others), then given two non-reassorted strains, the nucleotide
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| differences between their NA segments should be roughly proportional to
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| that from the HA segments and they use that as a test to identify putative
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| reassortments. They use a vaguely described idea to figure out which
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| combination of segments have reassorted (probably done manually) and they
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| seem to make no attempt to figure out if a set of taxa have reassorted
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| based on a common event. Finally, there is no evaluation of the capability
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| of this method - just a list of results which seem to clearly miss the
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| reassortments we already know of. In fact, in the abstract, they make the
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| claim that they find all the reassortments from earlier works.
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