The evolution and biology of SARS-CoV-2 variants

A Telenti, EB Hodcroft… - Cold Spring …, 2022 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Our understanding of the still unfolding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic would have been extremely limited without the study of the …

The impact of evolving SARS-CoV-2 mutations and variants on COVID-19 vaccines

G McLean, J Kamil, B Lee, P Moore, TF Schulz, A Muik… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The emergence of several new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) in recent months has raised concerns around the potential impact on …

Deep-learning-enabled protein–protein interaction analysis for prediction of SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and variant evolution

G Wang, X Liu, K Wang, Y Gao, G Li… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Host–pathogen interactions and pathogen evolution are underpinned by protein–protein
interactions between viral and host proteins. An understanding of how viral variants affect …

[HTML][HTML] Learning from prepandemic data to forecast viral escape

NN Thadani, S Gurev, P Notin, N Youssef, NJ Rollins… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Effective pandemic preparedness relies on anticipating viral mutations that are able to
evade host immune responses to facilitate vaccine and therapeutic design. However, current …

GenSLMs: Genome-scale language models reveal SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary dynamics

M Zvyagin, A Brace, K Hippe, Y Deng… - … Journal of High …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We seek to transform how new and emergent variants of pandemic-causing viruses,
specifically SARS-CoV-2, are identified and classified. By adapting large language models …

Fitness, growth and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants

E Volz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The massive scale of the global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing effort created new opportunities
and challenges for understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Rapid detection and assessment …

Progressive loss of conserved spike protein neutralizing antibody sites in Omicron sublineages is balanced by preserved T cell immunity

A Muik, BG Lui, J Quandt, H Diao, Y Fu, M Bacher… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Evolution of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron
variant has led to the emergence of sublineages with different patterns of neutralizing …

Predicting the antigenic evolution of SARS-COV-2 with deep learning

W Han, N Chen, X Xu, A Sahil, J Zhou, Z Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The relentless evolution of SARS-CoV-2 poses a significant threat to public health, as it
adapts to immune pressure from vaccines and natural infections. Gaining insights into …

Interpretable and predictive deep neural network modeling of the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein sequence to predict COVID-19 disease severity

BA Sokhansanj, Z Zhao, GL Rosen - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary As COVID-19 shifts from pandemic to endemic, emerging variants may be
more or less virulent. Predicting whether an emerging COVID-19 variant has of high risk of …

Mechanistic study of the transmission pattern of the SARS‐CoV‐2 omicron variant

K An, X Yang, M Luo, J Yan, P Xu… - Proteins: Structure …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The omicron variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
characterized by 30 mutations in its spike protein, has rapidly spread worldwide since …