Library of phylogenetic related sequences

摘要

The invention includes a method of assaying phylogenetically related sequences and generating a set of possible nucleic acid or amino acid sequence combinations. Sequences are analyzed to create an alignment and a set of phylogenetically related sequences are selected. The observed residue(s) or indel(s) occupying each position in the alignment of the selected phylogenetically related sequences are identified and this information is used to generate a set of sequence combinations, wherein the set of possible sequence combinations (nucleic acid or polypeptide) is composed of the union of the observed residues or indels identified at each position.