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The Chinese Spring Festival in 2020 is different for everyone. The excitement is hidden by the virus... The new type of coronavirus is coming, and the epidemic affects every Chinese. At the same time as tragedies continue, we also see the courage and solidarity of mankind in the face of disasters, and support from the country to Wuhan to work together to fight the epidemic. The first thing to pay tribute to here is that they convinced us that "Spring is always here." In addition, this fight also has a special participant-AI.
Where does the new coronavirus come from? Finding a pneumonia virus host with a deep learning model.
A study entitled "Deep Learning Algorithms Predicting the Host and Infectivity of New Coronaviruses" by Zhu Huaiqiu, a professor at the School of Engineering, Peking University, was published on the bioRxiv preprinted platform on January 25. The paper points out that, based on the deep-learning method of virus host prediction, bat and mink may be two potential hosts of the new coronavirus, and mink may be an intermediate host. This method is different from other traditional detection methods and can be regarded as a major breakthrough in virus detection by AI technology.
In order to detect the potential host and pathogenicity of new viruses, the traditional method is based on comparing the DNA sequences of new viruses with known…
