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ArticlemSystems2022

Mapping Data to Deep Understanding: Making the Most of the Deluge of SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences.

Bahrad A Sokhansanj, Gail L Rosen

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Article in mSystems, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Bahrad A SokhansanjDrexel Universitygrid.166341.7, Ecological and Evolutionary Signal-Processing and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5050-5926
Gail L RosenDrexel Universitygrid.166341.7, Ecological and Evolutionary Signal-Processing and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Next-generation sequencing has been essential to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of January 2022, nearly 7 million severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequences are available to researchers in public databases. Sequence databases are an abundant resource from which to extract biologically relevant and clinically actionable information. As the pandemic has gone on, SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly evolved, involving complex genomic changes that challenge current approaches to classifying SARS-CoV-2 variants. Deep sequence learning could be a potentially powerful way to build complex sequence-to-phenotype models. Unfortunately, while they can be predictive, deep learning typically produces "black box" models that cannot directly provide biological and clinical insight. Researchers should therefore consider implementing emerging methods for visualizing and interpreting deep sequence models. Finally, researchers should address important data limitations, including (i) global sequencing disparities, (ii) insufficient sequence metadata, and (iii) screening artifacts due to poor sequence quality control.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansPandemicsbioinformaticsCOVID-19deep learningexplainable AIgenomicsmachine learningSARS-CoV-2viral genomics

Identifiers

PMID35311562
PMCPMC9040592

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