From the Labs: French scientists predict possible Covid mutation sites

Professor Martin Weigt of the Computational and Quantitative Biology lab at Sorbonne University. © Dhananjay Khadilkar

A team of researchers from the Institut de Biologie Paris Seine (IBPS) at Sorbonne University in collaboration with the University of Lausanne, has used machine learning techniques to predict the probability of new mutations appearing in SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been characterised by the repeated emergence of new variants, the latest being Omicron.