Virion assembly represents an elaborate molecular jigsaw, coordinating numerous individual components to construct an infectious agent. For enveloped viruses, such as HIV, influenza and Herpes Simplex Virus-1 (HSV1), a vital piece of this puzzle is the acquisition of a membrane. Unlike viral proteins, this is not produced de novo, but derived directly from existing host membranes. The host’s se...

Assembling the DNA sequence jigsaw puzzle is no easy undertaking, and many computational techniques have been applied to date. Recent uses of evolutionary algorithms for this task have been based on rather misleading and inappropriate ideas, and have thus thrown unpromising results. It is the aim of this paper to emphasize the importance of selectively neutral mutations in generating successful...

The success of Vision Transformer (ViT) in various computer vision tasks has promoted the ever-increasing prevalence this convolution-free network. fact that ViT works on image patches makes it potentially relevant to problem jigsaw puzzle solving, which is a classical self-supervised task aiming at reordering shuffled sequential back their original form. Solving been demonstrated be helpful fo...