Virulence factors of influenza in humans

• Main Author: Goh, Marcus Wei Han
• Other Authors: Kwoh Chee Keong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70352
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The influenza virus is a highly virulent virus that is known to cause many outbreaks and even pandemics in the past and present. A notable outbreak was the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which was known to be the most lethal influenza pandemic in history. As such, there is a necessity to monitor and record the activities of the influenza virus. However, due to the high mutation rate of the virus, a very large database was needed to contain all the information of influenza. Hence, it would be very time consuming and expensive to extract specific data from the large influenza database.