Deep Evolutionary Fitness Inference for Variant Nomination from Directed Evolution
Max W. Shen, Nathaniel Diamant, Christina Helmling, Raymond Newland, Ziqing Lu, Clara Fannjiang, Simon P. Kelow, Nathan C. Frey, Saeed Saremi, Ryan L. Kelly, Richard Bonneau, Gabriele Scalia, Christian N. Cunningham, Tommaso Biancalani
This paper introduces EVFI and DeepEVFI, machine learning methods that infer variant fitness from directed evolution data, identifying tighter binders missed by conventional approaches.
bioRxiv · Jul 22, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics