Jun-Qing Wei, Sen Zhang, Ya- Dan Li, Shu-Yang Jian. Deep learning predicts potential reassortments of avian H5N1 with human influenza viruses. National Science Review, 2025;, nwaf396
Frequent infection cases with avian H5N1 influenza A viruses (IAVs) are posing pandemic risks of human/avian-reassorted IAVs. We aimed to build an attentional deep learning model named HAIRANGE, for predicting potentially human-adapted reassortment of H5N1 and human IAVs. A biologically relevant and non-pretrained embedding named Codon2Vec in HAIRANGE performed competitively in benchmarking against other embedders, such as ESM2, DNABERT2 and others, indicating a high association of genomic context with virus’s hosts or serotypes, for IAV RNA polymerase-related genes. HAIRANGE predicted accurately the adaptation of each polymerase-related gene and the adaptive polymerase-related gene reassortment with polymerase activity validated by in vitro reporting assay. Worrisomely, an adaptive reassortment between avian H5N1 and human H3N2 IAVs was predicted by HAIRANGE and validated by polymerase activity assay. Summarily, HAIRANGE can predict adaptive IAV reassortment based on embedded genomic context. Current avian H5N1 IAV is posing a pandemic potential via possible reassortment with human IAVs.
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