Whole-genome prediction of bacterial pathogenic capacity on novel bacteria using protein language models, with PathogenFinder2
Alfred Ferrer Florensa, José Juan Almagro Armenteros, Rolf Sommer Kaas…·Frank M. Aarestrup
A ProtT5-embedding, ConvNext-plus-attention ensemble predicts human pathogenic capacity from whole bacterial genomes, outperforming prior predictors on species absent from training and flagging influential proteins.