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Scoring Amino Acid Mutations to Predict Avian-to-Human Transmission of Avian Influenza Viruses.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 29 Jun 2018
Qiang Xiaoli, Kou Zheng, Fang Gang, Wang Yanfeng
Abstract excerpt
Avian influenza virus (AIV) can directly cross species barriers and infect humans with high fatality. Using machine learning methods, the present paper scores the amino acid mutations and predicts interspecies transmission. Initially, 183 signature positions in 11 viral proteins were screened by the scores of five amino acid factors and their random forest rankings. The most important amino acid factor (Factor 3)...
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