About Viral Sentry AI Platform

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Viral Sentry AI is a cutting-edge platform designed to predict zoonotic potential in viruses, helping to identify emerging threats to public health. At its core is the VirSentAI model, a unique AI model specifically fine-tuned from the pretrained HyenaDNA architecture for the task of predicting human host tropism. The platform is engineered to automatically and continuously scan public DNA databases for new viral sequences and metadata. A LLM is used to understand the virus host if it is not present into the NCBI fields. For each possible zoonotic virus, a drug repurposing is done using PLAPT pre-trained models that is able to calculate the affiniy energy interactions between all the ChEMBL drugs and viral proteins. Our mission is to leverage artificial intelligence and bioinformatics to provide actionable insights for researchers, health professionals, and policymakers. In alignment with this goal, the VirSentAI tool is free access and open-source software, with the code publicly available on GitHub.

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