Neural network to predict probabilistically possible mutations in hemagglutinins from Eurasia H1 influenza A virus

ABSTRACT

The current COVID-19 pandemic continues with its new variants, whose mutations are unpredictable. Thus, how to predict mutations in viruses has profound meanings for vaccine and drug development as well as prevention measures. Currently the documented mutations in SARS-CoV-2 are not abundant yet, especially for making phylogenetic tree, it would be useful and easy to use the virus data with abundant mutations such as influenza A virus to build predictive model. In this study, a neural network with feedforward backpropagation algorithm is employed to predict the probabilistically possible mutation positions and mutated amino acids in hemagglutinins from Eurasia H1 influenza A virus. The study demonstrates an encouraging result and suggests the possibility to continue working along this research line. © 2021 SPIE.