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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2021

Network-based virus-host interaction prediction with application to SARS-CoV-2.

Hangyu Du, Feng Chen, Hongfu Liu, Pengyu Hong

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Computational Analysis of Virus-Host Interactomes.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
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  5. Prediction of viral-host interactions of COVID-19 by computational methods.Chemometrics and intelligent laboratory systems : an international journal sponsored by the Chemometrics Society · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Hangyu DuDepartment of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Feng ChenDepartment of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Hongfu LiuDepartment of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Pengyu HongDepartment of Computer Science, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19, caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has quickly become a global health crisis since the first report of infection in December of 2019. However, the infection spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 and its comprehensive protein-level interactions with hosts remain unclear. There is a massive amount of underutilized data and knowledge about RNA viruses highly relevant to SARS-CoV-2 and proteins of their hosts. More in-depth and more comprehensive analyses of that knowledge and data can shed new light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the COVID-19 pandemic and reveal potential risks. In this work, we constructed a multi-layer virus-host interaction network to incorporate these data and knowledge. We developed a machine-learning-based method to predict virus-host interactions at both protein and organism levels. Our approach revealed five potential infection targets of SARS-CoV-2 and 19 highly possible interactions between SARS-CoV-2 proteins and human proteins in the innate immune pathway.

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coronavirusCOVID-19interaction predictionmachine learningprotein-protein interactionSARS-CoV-2virus-host interaction network

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PMID33817672
PMCPMC8006187

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