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that the sample was found. And, of couse, we can represent it with a graph. It can
be considered a complex networks because the same mutation may happen in
different locations, apparently not correlated. It was done and thats why we know
that AIDS came from West Africa.
One more way to model the graphs is thinking about the way of
transmission. For example, the recent Ebola plague could be transmitted though
saliva, sexual intercourse, blood, contact to contaminated corpses, and some other
ways. Considering the nodes as people and the edges as the ways of
transmissions, we can perhaps define the most common way of transmission in a
certain condition and how the surrounding people are threatened. Therefore,
develop techniques to avoid or to slow down the spread.
These are a few applications of the simple graph theory in the biology
field. We could explore other fields like genetic evolution, food chains, and other
biological complex networks or even other fields beyond these.
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http://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/origin
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/plague/history/
http://chssp.ucdavis.edu/programs/historyblueprint/maps/medievalmap#blackdeathanch