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Resolving Genome-to-Phenotype Links in Bacteria: Machine-Learned Inference from Downsampled k-mer Representations
Torbjoern Goebel Bak Regueira, Carolina Barra, Ole Lund
This paper introduces a downsampling method for bacterial genomes using k-mer representations, showing that ensemble models outperform deep learning on phenotype prediction tasks.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.18.705352