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Protein and genomic language models uncover the unexplored diversity of bacterial immunity - PubMed

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  • #bacterial immunity
  • #machine learning
  • #genomics
  • Machine learning models predict antiphage systems with high precision and recall.
  • Experimental validation led to discovery of 12 new antiphage systems.
  • Analysis of >32,000 bacterial genomes shows ~1.5% devoted to defense.
  • Over 85% of predicted protein families in bacterial immunity are uncharacterized.
  • Interactive catalog of >19,000 candidate operon families provided for future study.