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Forecasts of viral variation could improve vaccine and antiviral treatments ahead of time.

The holy grail of pandemic preparedness is being able to predict how a virus will evolve just by looking at its genetic sequence. Those days are still a way off, but a growing number of research groups are using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, influenza and other viruses.

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Nature 637, 527-528 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-04195-3

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