Predicting the Evolutionary and Functional Landscapes of Viruses with a Unified Nucleotide-Protein Language Model: LucaVirus
Yuanfei Pan, Yong He, Yu-Qi Liu, Yongtao Shan, Shuning Liu, Jia-Hao Ma, Xue Liu, Xiaoyun Pan, Yinqi Bai, Zan Xu, Tingjun Hou, Zheng Wang, Jieping Ye, Jianguo He, Edward Charles Holmes, , Mǎng Shī
LucaVirus predicts viral evolution and function using a unified nucleotide-protein language model, achieving state-of-the-art results in key virology tasks.
National Science Review · Jun 16, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics