Predicting Influenza Virus Host Tropism and Zoonotic Spillover Risk from Protein Sequences
Alexandra K. Longest, Taylor M. Grace, Minh Tran, Blake Northrop, Ashlyn Donohue, Ahmad Said, Stephanie L. Guertin, Brian E. Root
This paper predicts influenza virus host tropism and zoonotic spillover risk using protein sequence embeddings, achieving high precision and recall scores across multiple host classifications.
bioRxiv · May 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics