Patent ID: 8032347

Claim:
A method of protein sequence analysis, the method comprising: a) identifying, from among a first group of aligned protein sequences having at least a threshold degree of alignment with a first protein sequence, a second group of at least one of said aligned sequences having a host-pathogen relationship to each other, wherein, i) when the first protein sequence is a pathogen protein, at least one of said first group of aligned protein sequences comprises a protein sequence of a host organism to the pathogen, or ii) when the first protein sequence is a host protein, at least one of said first group of aligned protein sequences comprises a protein sequence of a pathogen to the host; and wherein the identifying is performed by a computer programmed to execute an analysis routine for performing said identifying; b) storing the second group of aligned sequences in a user accessible storage medium; c) identifying an INDEL that differs between the host protein and the pathogen protein as a potential drug target; and d) storing a third group of aligned sequences having both a host-pathogen relationship to each other and a potential INDEL drug target in a user accessible storage medium.