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Uncovering Epistatic Interactions in SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Through Hidden Markov Models.
Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology - 1 Jan 2026
Adeniyi Ayotomiwa Ezekiel, Juyal Akshay, Skums Pavel, Patterson Murray, Zelikovsky Alex
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Understanding epistatic interactions, where mutations collectively influence viral fitness, is critical for predicting pathogen evolution. We present a hidden Markov model (HMM) framework that captures the temporal dynamics of epistatic relationships in SARS-CoV-2, addressing limitations of static network-based approaches. Our method models single amino acid variant pairs as a two-state system (linked/unlinked),...
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