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Mario Flores

The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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PathoBERT: A Hybrid Attention-Based Genomic Language Model for Read-Level Bacterial Pathogenicity Prediction

Salem A. El-aarag, Mario Flores, Mohamed E. Hasan, Alaa E. Hemeida, 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.

bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics