eWHT: Evolutionary Walsh-Hadamard Transform for Fitness Landscapes

ewht is a Python package for analyzing combinatorial fitness landscapes using the evolutionary Walsh-Hadamard transform (eWHT). It provides:

• Fast O(N log N) forward and inverse eWHT transforms
• Evolutionary mutation probabilities ps from MSAs or ESM2-650M
• Data preprocessing helpers (genotype encoding, evolutionary subsampling)
• Compressed sensing with LASSO on eWHT/WHT bases

Installation

ewht supports Python 3.9 and above. Install from PyPI:

pip install ewht

Optional extras:

pip install ewht[esm]   # ESM2-650M ps estimation (requires torch + transformers)

Quickstart

The package contains an example CR6261-H1 dataset from the paper. Load it, estimate ps from MSA, compute the eWHT, and run compressed sensing. The full script can be found in example_ewht.py:

import ewht

# Load data and preprocess
raw = ewht.load_example()
print(raw.head())
       mutant                                   mutated_sequence  fitness  estimated_fitness
0          WT  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0
1       L104V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0
2        A79V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0
3  A79V;L104V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0
4        S77G  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0
POSITIONS = [28, 30, 58, 59, 62, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 104]
MUTANTS = ["P", "R", "T", "K", "P", "D", "F", "A", "G", "V", "V"]
WT = (
    "QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPEWMGGIIPIFGTANYAQKFQGRVTITADKSTSTAYMELSSLRSEDTAMYYCAKHMGYQLRETMDVWGQGTTVTVSS"
)
L = len(POSITIONS)
print(df.head())
print(f"{df['genotype'].nunique()} unique genotypes, L={L}")
       mutant                                   mutated_sequence  fitness  estimated_fitness     genotype
0          WT  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0  00000000000
1       L104V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0  00000000001
2        A79V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0  00000000010
3  A79V;L104V  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0  00000000011
4        S77G  QVQLVESGAEVKKPGSSVKVSCKASGGTFSSYAISWVRQAPGQGPE...      7.0                  0  00000000100
2048 unique genotypes, L=11

with example_msa() as msa_path:
    # Compute ps from MSA
    ps = get_ps(WT_SEQUENCE, POSITIONS, MUTANTS, msa=msa_path)
    plot_ps(ps, OUTPUT_DIR / "ps_from_msa.png")

    # Compute eWHT
    coeffs, center = efwht_from_dataframe(df, ps, basis="eWHT")
    plot_ewht_spectrum(coeffs, L, OUTPUT_DIR / "ewht_spectrum.png", max_order=MAX_ORDER)

    # Sample evolutionary sequences for compressed sensing
    train, test = sample_evolutionary_sequences(
        df,
        ps,
        msa=msa_path,
        positions=POSITIONS,
        wt_sequence=WT_SEQUENCE,
        mutants=MUTANTS,
        fraction=0.75,
        train_n=TRAIN_N,
        random_state=0,
    )
    print(f"train={len(train)}, test={len(test)}")
    train=100, test=162

    # Run compressed sensing experiment
    result = run_cs_experiment(train, test, ps, basis="eWHT", center_by_ps=True, random_state=0)
    print(f"best lambda: {result.best_lambda}")
    print(f"train R²: {result.train_metrics['r2']:.4f}")
    print(f"test R²:  {result.test_metrics['r2']:.4f}")
    best lambda: 0.005
    train R²: 0.9662
    test R²:  0.8282

print(f"Figures in {OUTPUT_DIR.resolve()}/")

Run the full example:

python example_ewht.py

Evolutionary mutation probabilities

get_ps estimates per-site mutation probabilities from an MSA or, if no MSA is given, from ESM2-650M:

eWHT spectrum

The forward transform decomposes the centered landscape into Walsh coefficients grouped by interaction order:

Core API

Genotype encodings

ewht accepts genotypes as:

• Binary strings: "00101" (0 = WT, 1 = mutant)
• Pseudoboolean strings: "1-1-11" (1 = WT, -1 = mutant)

For custom mappings, add a genotype column directly instead of using genotypes_from_dataframe.

Optional dependencies

Publishing to PyPI

From a clean checkout of the repository:

# Install build tools
pip install build twine

# Build sdist + wheel (includes bundled example_data/)
python -m build

# Upload to TestPyPI first (recommended)
twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

# Verify install
pip install --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ ewht

# Upload to PyPI
twine upload dist/*

Before the first upload:

1. Create accounts on PyPI and TestPyPI.
2. Configure an API token: ~/.pypirc or TWINE_USERNAME=__token__ / TWINE_PASSWORD=pypi-....
3. Ensure the package name ewht is available on PyPI (or change name in pyproject.toml).
4. Bump version in pyproject.toml and ewht/__init__.py for each release.

Development

pip install -e ".[esm]"
pytest tests/ -v -m "not slow"
python example_ewht.py