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Predicting the animal hosts of coronaviruses from compositional biases of spike protein and whole genome sequences through machine learning
20 Apr 2021
Abstract excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the serious potential for novel zoonotic coronaviruses to emerge and cause major outbreaks. The immediate animal origin of the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, remains unknown, a notoriously challenging task for emerging disease investigations. Coevolution with hosts leads to specific evolutionary signatures within viral genomes that can inform likely animal origins. We obtained...
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