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Background <p>Deep mutational scanning (DMS) provides comprehensive maps of protein variant effects but remains experimentally intensive. Machine learning (ML) approaches have the potential to reduce experimental burden of DMS by predicting the functional impact of substitutions from limited data.</p> Results <p>We introduced a ML classifier trained on normalised DMS scores from SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) to categorise amino acid substitutions as functional (wild-type-like) or non-functional. Using brute-force feature selection, we identified minimal subsets of six substitution scores per residue that enable accurate classification of the remaining substitutions, achieving minimum (worst accuracy) scores exceeding 90%. Models including support vector machines, random forests, and logistic regression were evaluated without retraining (zero-shot prediction) against additional SARS-CoV-2 Mpro datasets and against unrelated datasets. The zero-shot performance of the models was strongest for other enzymes and more modest when applied to DMS systems that assess protein folding and/or protein-protein interactions.</p> Conclusion <p>The results show that targeted DMS combined with ML can reduce sequencing and reagent costs while preserving classification accuracy, offering a practical route to accelerate variant effect prediction.</p>

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Machine learning framework for cost effective deep mutational scanning through targeted substitution profiling

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    2026年5月19日

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  • Emily Morgan,
  • Shaylyn Govender,
  • Prashant Singh,
  • Ian Goodfellow,
  • Stephen C. Graham,
  • Nigel Tastan Bishop,
  • Özlem Tastan Bishop

摘要

Background

Deep mutational scanning (DMS) provides comprehensive maps of protein variant effects but remains experimentally intensive. Machine learning (ML) approaches have the potential to reduce experimental burden of DMS by predicting the functional impact of substitutions from limited data.

Results

We introduced a ML classifier trained on normalised DMS scores from SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) to categorise amino acid substitutions as functional (wild-type-like) or non-functional. Using brute-force feature selection, we identified minimal subsets of six substitution scores per residue that enable accurate classification of the remaining substitutions, achieving minimum (worst accuracy) scores exceeding 90%. Models including support vector machines, random forests, and logistic regression were evaluated without retraining (zero-shot prediction) against additional SARS-CoV-2 Mpro datasets and against unrelated datasets. The zero-shot performance of the models was strongest for other enzymes and more modest when applied to DMS systems that assess protein folding and/or protein-protein interactions.

Conclusion

The results show that targeted DMS combined with ML can reduce sequencing and reagent costs while preserving classification accuracy, offering a practical route to accelerate variant effect prediction.