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Brian E. Root

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Assay:protein sequence· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Organism:virus· 1

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 24, 2026

Predicting Influenza Virus Host Tropism and Zoonotic Spillover Risk from Protein Sequences

Alexandra K. Longest, Taylor M. Grace, Minh Tran…·Brian E. Root

This paper predicts influenza virus host tropism and zoonotic spillover risk using protein sequence embeddings, achieving high precision and recall scores across multiple host classifications.

DOI 10.64898/2026.05.21.726772

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