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Mining for antimicrobial peptides in sequence space

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A machine-learning pipeline identifies potent antimicrobial peptides by gradually narrowing down the search space of polypeptide chain sequences.

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Fig. 1: A machine-learning pipeline for the discovery of AMPs.

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  1. Machine Biology Group, Departments of Psychiatry and Microbiology, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Fangping Wan & Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

  2. Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Fangping Wan & Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

  3. Penn Institute for Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Fangping Wan & Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez

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