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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2014

Predicting virus mutations through statistical relational learning.

Elisa Cilia, Stefano Teso, Sergio Ammendola, Tom Lenaerts, Andrea Passerini

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  2. The prediction of virus mutation using neural networks and rough set techniques.EURASIP journal on bioinformatics & systems biology · 2016
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5 authors.

Elisa Cilia
Stefano Teso
Sergio Ammendola
Tom Lenaerts
Andrea PasseriniDepartment of Computer Science and Information Engineering, University of Trento, via Sommarive 5, I-38123 (Povo) Trento, Italy. passerini@disi.unitn.it.

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Abstract

backgroundViruses are typically characterized by high mutation rates, which allow them to quickly develop drug-resistant mutations. Mining relevant rules from mutation data can be extremely useful to understand the virus adaptation mechanism and to design drugs that effectively counter potentially resistant mutants.

resultsWe propose a simple statistical relational learning approach for mutant prediction where the input consists of mutation data with drug-resistance information, either as sets of mutations conferring resistance to a certain drug, or as sets of mutants with information on their susceptibility to the drug. The algorithm learns a set of relational rules characterizing drug-resistance and uses them to generate a set of potentially resistant mutants. Learning a weighted combination of rules allows to attach generated mutants with a resistance score as predicted by the statistical relational model and select only the highest scoring ones.

conclusionsPromising results were obtained in generating resistant mutations for both nucleoside and non-nucleoside HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The approach can be generalized quite easily to learning mutants characterized by more complex rules correlating multiple mutations.

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AlgorithmsDrug Resistance, ViralModels, GeneticMutationAmino Acid SequenceArtificial IntelligenceHIVHIV InfectionsHIV Reverse TranscriptaseHumansModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalMolecular Sequence DataNucleosidesReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsHIV Reverse TranscriptaseNucleosidesReverse Transcriptase Inhibitors

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PMID25238967
PMCPMC4261881

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