Non-identifiability and the Blessings of Misspecification in Models of Molecular Fitness
E. N. Weinstein, A. N. Amin, J. Frazer, D. Marks
This paper shows that fitness cannot be reliably estimated from sequence data alone and that current models work well due to misspecification, not accuracy.
bioRxiv · Jan 29, 2022 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology