A Protein Language Model for Exploring Viral Fitness Landscapes
J. Ito, A. Strange, W. Liu, G. Joas, S. Lytras, The Genotype to Phenotype Japan (G2P-Japan) Consortium, K. Sato
This paper introduces CoVFit, a protein language model that predicts SARS-CoV-2 variant fitness using spike protein sequences, identifying fitness-enhancing mutations and predicting emerging variants.
bioRxiv · Mar 15, 2024Microbiology