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Protein antibiotics: mind your language

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This month’s Genome Watch examines how natural language processing and machine learning are being implemented in the hunt for new antimicrobial peptides.

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  1. Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK

    Annapaula Correia & Aaron Weimann

  2. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Annapaula Correia

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Annapaula Correia

  4. Molecular Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Aaron Weimann

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Correia, A., Weimann, A. Protein antibiotics: mind your language. Nat Rev Microbiol 19, 7 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-020-00485-5

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