BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
PathoBERT: A Hybrid Attention-Based Genomic Language Model for Read-Level Bacterial Pathogenicity Prediction
Salem A. El-aarag, Mario Flores, Mohamed E. Hasan…·Mahmoud ElHefnawi
PathoBERT improves bacterial pathogenicity prediction from short reads by combining a DNABERT encoder with attention-based feature extraction, achieving better performance than existing methods.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.27.754806