Predicting evolution

M Lässig, V Mustonen, AM Walczak - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
The face of evolutionary biology is changing: from reconstructing and analysing the past to
predicting future evolutionary processes. Recent developments include prediction of …

From fitness landscapes to seascapes: non-equilibrium dynamics of selection and adaptation

V Mustonen, M Lässig - Trends in genetics, 2009 - cell.com
Evolution is a quest for innovation. Organisms adapt to changing natural selection by evolving
new phenotypes. Can we read this dynamics in their genomes? Not every mutation under …

Predictive modeling of influenza shows the promise of applied evolutionary biology

…, M Łuksza, RA Neher, BT Grenfell, M Lässig… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Seasonal influenza is controlled through vaccination campaigns. Evolution of influenza
virus antigens means that vaccines must be updated to match novel strains, and vaccine …

A predictive fitness model for influenza

M Łuksza, M Lässig - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
… Each strain has a multiplicity m i in our data set, which counts the number of sequences
with HA genotype a i and season of observation t i (sequences observed in the same season …

Gene expression variability across cells and species shapes innate immunity

…, M Dennis, M Haniffa, A Nourmohammad, M Lässig… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
… , samples were crosslinked in 1% HCHO (prepared in 1× DPBS) at room temperature for 10
min, and HCHO was quenched by the addition of glycine at a final concentration of 0.125 M. …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive evolution of transcription factor binding sites

J Berg, S Willmann, M Lässig - BMC evolutionary biology, 2004 - Springer
… r m gives the point where the binding probability reaches a maximum (crater landscape),
or else values close to 1 (mesa landscape). r s approximately indicates the onset of selection, …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and evolution of protein interaction networks: a statistical model for link dynamics and gene duplications

J Berg, M Lässig, A Wagner - BMC evolutionary biology, 2004 - Springer
… and k', m kk' pairs interact is , where g kk' gives the probability for a cross-interaction. are the
binomial coefficients. The probability p for observing for each pair k ≤ k' m kk' interactions in …

Local graph alignment and motif search in biological networks

J Berg, M Lässig - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
… Next we evaluate the internal link numbers L α = L(c α ) and the pairwise mismatches M
αβ , defined as the minimum of M(c α , c β ) over all pairwise alignments of the subgraphs G α …

Fitness flux and ubiquity of adaptive evolution

V Mustonen, M Lässig - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
… These enjoy the relation with scalar products v 2 and m 2 defined in SI Text. We now consider
the reverse history x T = (x 0 T , …, x n T ), which is given by x i T = x n –i (i = 0, …, n), and, …

[PDF][PDF] Discovery of ultrapotent broadly neutralizing antibodies from SARS-CoV-2 elite neutralizers

…, TF Schulz, LE Sander, M Koch, M Łuksza, M Lässig… - Cell host & …, 2022 - cell.com
A fraction of COVID-19 convalescent individuals mount a potent antibody response to SARS-CoV-2
with cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-1. To uncover their humoral response in detail, we …