. The software could then spot genetic shifts as the virus adapted, usually shown in increasing infection rates and falling mortality rates.
"We could see key gene variants appearing and becoming more prevalent, as the mortality rate also changed, and all this was happening weeks before the VOCs containing these variants were officially designated by the WHO,"The specific technique used here by the team is called, which essentially crunches the numbers on a set of existing data to predict new data – using not just the averages of the data points but also the relationships between them.
By testing their model on something that's already happened and finding close matches between the real and the predicted data, the scientists could prove EWAD's effectiveness at predicting how measures such as vaccines and"One of the big lessons of this work is that it is important to take into account not just a few prominent variants, but also the tens of thousands of other undesignated variants, which we call the...