AI Learns to ‘Speak’ Genetic ‘Dialect’ (IMAGE)
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A phylogenetic tree of SARS-CoV-2 sequences, built with Nextstrain, displays sequences colored by their clade and organized by collection date. Over time, sequences mutate and diverge, forming new clades, much like dialects in natural languages. Unlike traditional methods that focus on mutations from the original reference sequence, this new research incorporates a parent-child relationship in virus evolution. It evaluates mutations not only in relation to the reference sequence but also by assessing their impact on the grammaticality, semantics, and attention of the protein sequence to identify the most significant mutations.
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