Turning the Tide Against Antibiotic Resistance: Protein-BERT’s Accurate and Interpretable Predictions
Scientists from Waseda University and Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, developed a novel approach for predicting antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) resistance mechanisms using Protein-BERT, a protein language model based on deep learning. This model excels at predicting resistance for genes with low similarity to known sequences. By analyzing biologically relevant features like conserved residues and binding sites,…


















































