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ArticleScientific reports2022

Tracking mutational semantics of SARS-CoV-2 genomes.

Rohan Singh, Sunil Nagpal, Nishal K Pinna, Sharmila S Mande

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Rohan SinghTCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Pune, 411013, India.
Sunil NagpalTCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Pune, 411013, India. sunil.nagpal@tcs.com.
Nishal K PinnaTCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Pune, 411013, India.
Sharmila S MandeTCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Pune, 411013, India. sharmila.mande@tcs.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms process linguistic data in order to discover the associated word semantics and develop models that can describe or even predict the latent meanings of the data. The applications of NLP become multi-fold while dealing with dynamic or temporally evolving datasets (e.g., historical literature). Biological datasets of genome-sequences are interesting since they are sequential as well as dynamic. Here we describe how SARS-CoV-2 genomes and mutations thereof can be processed using fundamental algorithms in NLP to reveal the characteristics and evolution of the virus. We demonstrate applicability of NLP in not only probing the temporal mutational signatures through dynamic topic modelling, but also in tracing the mutation-associations through tracing of semantic drift in genomic mutation records. Our approach also yields promising results in unfolding the mutational relevance to patient health status, thereby identifying putative signatures linked to known/highly speculated mutations of concern.

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Genome, ViralSARS-CoV-2COVID-19HumansMutationSemantics

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PMID36127400
PMCPMC9487856

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