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The ability to predict the evolution of a pathogen would significantly improve the ability to control, prevent, and treat disease. Despite significant progress in other problem spaces, deep learning has yet to contribute to the issue of predicting mutations of evolving populations. To address this gap, we developed a novel machine learning framework using generative adversarial networks (GANs) with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to accurately predict genetic mutations and evolution of future biological populations. Using a generalized time-reversible phylogenetic model of protein evolution with bootstrapped maximum likelihood tree estimation, we trained a sequence-to-sequence generator within an adversarial framework, named MutaGAN, to generate complete protein sequences augmented with possible mutations of future virus populations. Influenza virus sequences were identified as an ideal test case for this deep learning framework because it is a significant human pathogen with new strains emerging annually and global surveillance efforts have generated a large amount of publicly available data from the National Center for Biotechnology Informations (NCBI) Influenza Virus Resource (IVR). MutaGAN generated child sequences from a given parent protein sequence with a median Levenshtein distance of 2.00 amino acids. Additionally, the generator was able to augment the majority of parent proteins with at least one mutation identified within the global influenza virus population. These results demonstrate the power of the MutaGAN framework to aid in pathogen forecasting with implications for broad utility in evolutionary prediction for any protein population.
Febrile neutropenia (FN) has been associated with high mortality, especially among adults with cancer. Understanding the patient and provider level heterogeneity in FN hospital admissions has potential to inform personalized interventions focused on
Modeling the effects of mutations on the binding affinity plays a crucial role in protein engineering and drug design. In this study, we develop a novel deep learning based framework, named GraphPPI, to predict the binding affinity changes upon mutat
Radiomic models have been shown to outperform clinical data for outcome prediction in glioblastoma (GBM). However, clinical implementation is limited by lack of parameters standardization. We aimed to compare nine machine learning classifiers, with d
The sequence of amino acids in a protein is believed to determine its native state structure, which in turn is related to the functionality of the protein. In addition, information pertaining to evolutionary relationships is contained in homologous s
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