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20202026
most citedA multi-group SEIRA model for the spread of COVID-19 among heterogeneous populations

86 citations · 134 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

q-bio.BM2026

Multitask Bayesian Neural Networks for Multiparameter Protein Engineering

Fabio Herrera-Rocha, David Medina-Ortiz, Desiree Wyrzykala +2

Simultaneously engineering multiple protein properties remains a major challenge. Existing machine learning-based pipelines for protein engineering often model properties separatel…

q-bio.BM2026

Quaternionic Response Geometry for Proteins: Toward a Noncommutative Theory of Ordered Deformations

Xiaoting Chen, Chon-Fai Kam, Yu Li +6

Protein function may depend not only on endpoint conformations but also on the ordered deformation histories through which they are reached. This distinction is relevant to alloste…

q-bio.BM2025★ 1 cited

Machine Learning-Driven Enzyme Mining: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

Yanzi Zhang, Felix Moorhoff, Sizhe Qiu +4

Enzyme mining is rapidly evolving as a data-driven strategy to identify biocatalysts with tailored functions from the vast landscape of uncharacterized proteins. The integration of…

q-bio.BM2025

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering

Fabio Herrera-Rocha, David Medina-Ortiz, Fabian Mauz +2

Data-driven modeling based on Machine Learning (ML) is becoming a central component of protein engineering workflows. This perspective presents the elements necessary to develop ef…

q-bio.QM2025

Geometric deep learning assists protein engineering. Opportunities and Challenges

Julián García-Vinuesa, Jorge Rojas, Nicole Soto-García +7

Protein engineering is experiencing a paradigmatic shift through the integration of geometric deep learning into computational design workflows. While traditional strategies, such…

q-bio.QM2025★ 1 cited

From thermodynamics to protein design: Diffusion models for biomolecule generation towards autonomous protein engineering

Wen-ran Li, Xavier F. Cadet, David Medina-Ortiz +6

Protein design with desirable properties has been a significant challenge for many decades. Generative artificial intelligence is a promising approach and has achieved great succes…

q-bio.PE2023★ 8 cited

Model-based assessment of sampling protocols for infectious disease genomic surveillance

Sebastian Contreras, Karen Y. Oróstica, Anamaria Daza-Sanchez +8

Genomic surveillance of infectious diseases allows monitoring circulating and emerging variants and quantifying their epidemic potential. However, due to the high costs associated…

q-bio.PE2021★ 7 cited

Mutational signatures and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 Gamma and Lambda variants

Karen Y. Oróstica, Sebastian Contreras, Sebastian B. Mohr +12

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern endangers the long-term control of COVID-19, especially in countries with limited genomic surveillance. In this work, we explored ge…

q-bio.GN2021

Peptipedia: a comprehensive database for peptide research supported by Assembled predictive models and Data Mining approaches

Cristofer Quiroz, Yasna Barrera Saavedra, Benjamín Armijo-Galdames +4

Motivation: Peptides have attracted the attention in this century due to their remarkable therapeutic properties. Computational tools are being developed to take advantage of exist…

cs.CE2020★ 5 cited

Combination of digital signal processing and assembled predictive models facilitates the rational design of proteins

David Medina-Ortiz, Sebastian Contreras, Juan Amado-Hinojosa +4

Predicting the effect of mutations in proteins is one of the most critical challenges in protein engineering; by knowing the effect a substitution of one (or several) residues in t…

q-bio.PE2020★ 26 cited

Statistically-based methodology for revealing real contagion trends and correcting delay-induced errors in the assessment of COVID-19 pandemic

Sebastián Contreras, Juan Pablo Biron-Lattes, H. Andrés Villavicencio +3

COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our world in a timescale much shorter than what we can understand. Particularities of SARS-CoV-2, such as its persistence in surfaces and the lack of…

q-bio.PE2020★ 86 cited

A multi-group SEIRA model for the spread of COVID-19 among heterogeneous populations

Sebastian Contreras, H. Andres Villavicencio, David Medina-Ortiz +2

The outbreak and propagation of COVID-19 have posed a considerable challenge to modern society. In particular, the different restrictive actions taken by governments to prevent the…