Next Steps

While many of our results coincided with known packaging regions, our results also suggest new potential areas of interest related to packaging signals.

Another future direction could be to verify our results using in vitro experiments or biochemical techniques. Using reverse genetics techniques, we could disrupt the packaging signals the pipeline identified, and analyze its effect on the viral assortment process.

Additionally, this pipeline can be applied to any segmented viruses, including other influenza and rotaviruses. It would also be useful to run it against more well known viruses, such as the pseudomonas phi6 virus, where the packaging signals are more well known than H1N1 and rotavirus A.