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Wright Makambi

Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research

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Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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XAMPGen: An Interpretable SI Pipeline For Novel Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery

Kinjal Mondal, Sarala Padi, Navleen Kaur, Wright Makambi, David P. Hoogerheide, Frank Heinrich, Mihaela Mihailescu, Jeffery B. Klauda, Antonio Cardone

This paper introduces XAMPGen, an interpretable generative model for discovering novel antimicrobial peptides using fine-tuned protein language models and explainable AI techniques.

bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics