Flex-sweep 2.0: more flexible and faster selective sweeps detection
Journal:
bioRxiv
Published Date:
Aug 7, 2026
Abstract
Flex-sweep is a convolutional neural network-based method able to detect a wide range of selective sweeps, including those thousands of generations old, from single population genomic data, while robust to background selection. Here we present a substantial update that streamlines the entire workflow. The new version vastly reduces memory needs and vastly speeds up summary-statistic computation over fully customizable statistics combinations and genomic regions, relaxes CNN constraints by supporting custom architectures and haplotype matrix sorting methods. Domain-Adaptive Neural Network (DANN) training is now supported, as well as ancestral-state polarization and a robust, clustering and confounder-aware gene set sweep enrichment pipeline robust for downstream analysis. Flex-sweep 2.0 scales to hundreds of thousands of training simulations, and enables genome-wide inference on a standard workstation.
