This track contains deep mutational scanning data measuring the effect of the mutations to the Spike RBD to binding of 10 antibodies using a yeast surface display system. The results are described in Greaney et al, Cell Host Microbe 2020.
Scores represent the "escape fraction" (discussed at length in the Methods of the paper) which "represent the fraction of a given variant that escape antibody binding, and should in principle range from 0 to 1."
A higher score indicates a greater level of escape.
Each subtrack contains all the scores representing mutations to a particular amino acid (each annotation is a Spike codon). For instance the A subtrack measures the escape fraction for a particular antibody if the annotated amino acid is mutated to alanine (if the wildtype amino acid is A, then the score is 0). The "total" subtracks represent the sum of all escape fractions for all amino acid changes at a position. The "max" subtracks are the escape fraction for the amino acid substitution with the greatest escape fraction.
"Note that the magnitude of the measured effects of mutations on antibody escape depends on the antibody concentration and the flow cytometry gates applied, meaning that the escape fractions are comparable across sites for any given antibody, but are not precisely comparable among antibodies without external calibration."
Visualizations of the data are available from the authors here.
Table S1 from Starr et al, was downloaded and parsed into bedGraph format.
The raw data can be explored interactively with the Table Browser, or combined with other datasets in the Data Integrator tool.
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Greaney AJ, Starr TN, Gilchuk P, Zost SJ, Binshtein E, Loes AN, Hilton SK, Huddleston J, Eguia R, Crawford KHD et al. Complete Mapping of Mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Receptor-Binding Domain that Escape Antibody Recognition. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Nov 19;. PMID: 33259788; PMC: PMC7676316