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Pierre-Philippe Dechant^1,2,3, Yang-Hui He^4,5,6

¹School of Science, Technology & Health, York St John University, York, United Kingdom.

|May 5, 2021

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Virology
Machine learning

Background:

Realistic evolutionary fitness landscapes are difficult to create.
A dodecahedral capsid model with 12 packaging signals in three affinity bands represents virus assembly.
Previous exploration of this 312-genome space used computationally expensive stochastic assembly models.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a faster and accurate method for exploring virus assembly fitness landscapes.
To leverage machine learning to overcome computational limitations.

Main Methods:

Established a neural network model.
Applied machine learning techniques to predict assembly efficiency.
Short-circuited intensive computational modeling.

Main Results:

Achieved astounding accuracy in predicting fitness landscapes.
Reduced computation time from extensive hours to minutes.
Demonstrated the efficacy of machine learning in this biological modeling context.

Conclusions:

Machine learning, specifically neural networks, can accurately and efficiently model complex biological systems like virus assembly.
This approach significantly accelerates the exploration of evolutionary fitness landscapes.
The findings offer a powerful new tool for virology and evolutionary biology research.