Developing Foundation Models for Predicting Viral Animal Host Range in Intelligent Surveillance
Jinyuan Guo, Qian Guo, Hengchuang Yin, Yilun Han, Peter X. Geng, Jiaheng Hou, Haoyu Zhang, Jie Tan, Mo Li, Yan Zhang, Xiaoqing Jiang, Huaiqiu Zhu
This paper introduces VirHRanger, a foundation model for predicting viral host range using genomic and protein data, achieving high accuracy across diverse viruses and host categories.
bioRxiv · Feb 13, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics