Benzinga | Jan 11, 2022 07:12AM EST

BioNTech And InstaDeep Developed And Successfully Tested Early Warning System To Detect Potential High-Risk SARS-CoV-2 Variants

* Early Warning System combines Spike protein structural modeling with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and monitor high-risk SARS-CoV-2 variants, identifying >90% of WHO-designated variants on average two months prior to officially receiving the designation

* Study introduces a new method of combining publicly available SARS-CoV-2 sequence information with predictive analytics to effectively detect and monitor potential high-risk variants which could help increase preparedness against future variants of concern

* Early Warning System is fully scalable as new variant data become available

* Study is available on the pre-print server BioRxiv and has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal