mSystems (Jun 2021)

Component Parts of Bacteriophage Virions Accurately Defined by a Machine-Learning Approach Built on Evolutionary Features

  • Tze Y. Thung,
  • Murray E. White,
  • Wei Dai,
  • Jonathan J. Wilksch,
  • Rebecca S. Bamert,
  • Andrea Rocker,
  • Christopher J. Stubenrauch,
  • Daniel Williams,
  • Cheng Huang,
  • Ralf Schittelhelm,
  • Jeremy J. Barr,
  • Eleanor Jameson,
  • Sheena McGowan,
  • Yanju Zhang,
  • Jiawei Wang,
  • Rhys A. Dunstan,
  • Trevor Lithgow

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00242-21
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 3

Abstract

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In response to the global problem of antimicrobial resistance, there are moves to use bacteriophages (phages) as therapeutic agents. Selecting which phages will be effective therapeutics relies on interpreting features contributing to shelf-life and applicability to diagnosed infections.