Extended Data Fig. 9: EVEscape strain forecasting.
From: Learning from prepandemic data to forecast viral escape
a) VOCs have high EVEscape scores compared to combinations of random mutations (sampled either from all possible single substitution mutations or from mutations previously observed in VOCs) at the same mutation depth, particularly Delta and later Omicron strains. b) VOCs are among the highest scoring new, unique strains for their two-week period of emergence using a prepandemic EVEscape model.
