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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2022

Multi-task learning for predicting SARS-CoV-2 antibody escape.

Barak Gross, Roded Sharan

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors.

Barak GrossSchool of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Roded SharanSchool of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic has revolutionized our world, with vaccination proving to be a key tool in fighting the disease. However, a major threat to this line of attack are variants that can evade the vaccine. Thus, a fundamental problem of growing importance is the identification of mutations of concern with high escape probability. In this paper we develop a computational framework that harnesses systematic mutation screens in the receptor binding domain of the viral Spike protein for escape prediction. The framework analyzes data on escape from multiple antibodies simultaneously, creating a latent representation of mutations that is shown to be effective in predicting escape and binding properties of the virus. We use this representation to validate the escape potential of current SARS-CoV-2 variants.

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coronavirusescape predictionmulti-task learningneural networkreceptor binding domain

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PMID36035121
PMCPMC9403730

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