Vir2vec: A Genome-Wide Viral Embedding
Simone Rancati, Pablo Arozarena Donelli, Giovanna Nicora, Laura Bergomi, Tommaso Mario Buonocore, Michael Aaron Sy, Sakshi Pandey, Mattia Prosperi, Marco Salemi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Christina A. Boucher, Enea Parimbelli, Simone Marini
Vir2vec is a genome-wide viral embedding model that outperforms existing models in viral genome understanding tasks and provides explainability for host adaptation mutations.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics