no code implementations • 24 Apr 2023 • Sarwan Ali, Babatunde Bello, Prakash Chourasia, Ria Thazhe Punathil, Pin-Yu Chen, Imdad Ullah Khan, Murray Patterson
Understanding the host-specificity of different families of viruses sheds light on the origin of, e. g., SARS-CoV-2, rabies, and other such zoonotic pathogens in humans.
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2023 • Sarwan Ali, Prakash Chourasia, Zahra Tayebi, Babatunde Bello, Murray Patterson
In this work, we propose \emph{ViralVectors}, a compact feature vector generation from virome sequencing data that allows effective downstream analysis.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2022 • Sarwan Ali, Babatunde Bello, Prakash Chourasia, Ria Thazhe Punathil, Yijing Zhou, Murray Patterson
In coronaviruses, the surface (S) protein, or spike protein, is an important part of determining host specificity since it is the point of contact between the virus and the host cell membrane.
1 code implementation • 2 Oct 2021 • Sarwan Ali, Babatunde Bello, Zahra Tayebi, Murray Patterson
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide, viral genomic data is available in the order of millions of sequences on public databases such as GISAID.