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A contextualised protein language model reveals the functional syntax of bacterial evolution
Maciej Wiatrak, David C. Abelson, Roman Mikhaylenko…·R. Andres Floto
Trained on over 1.3 million bacterial genomes represented as ordered protein sequences, the transformer foundation model Bacformer predicts protein interactions, operons, essentiality, and phenotypes while generating trait-conditioned synthetic proteomes.
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