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A Harvard/Oxford team of researchers has developed a tool to predict viral mutations. They say it would have correctly predicted all of Covid's mutations and evolution. (news.harvard.edu)
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A Harvard/Oxford team of researchers has developed a tool to predict viral mutations. They say that had it been available at the start of the pandemic, it would have correctly predicted all the Covid mutations that evolved to dominate.

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[โ€“] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's a prediction model that runs a bunch of eventual alternative results. It doesn't "predict" anything. It just gives you a jillion (industry term) eventualities. Doesn't mean a thing unless it correctly calculates the actual outcome.

[โ€“] kglitch@kglitch.social 2 points 2 years ago

Did you read the article?