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With no HIV vaccine in sight, virologists need to know how the virus will react to a given combination drug therapy.

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                  Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 3
                  March 2010
                  152 pages
                  ISSN:0001-0782
                  EISSN:1557-7317
                  DOI:10.1145/1666420
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