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Why don't we use machine learning to find phages?
by anewpersonality 4y ago
Why don't we use machine learning to find phages?
- Fomite 4y agoWhat makes you think we don't?
- pyuser583 4y agoMachine learning isn’t great at everything. Is “finding phages” one of the tasks it good at. I remember when Google was claiming they could track the Flu based on searches, it was going to revolutionize tracking pandemics.
- Fomite 4y agoThere's a decent amount of work being done, broadly, in using machine learning to identify resistance mechanisms and work in antibiotic discovery. There's likely applications there for phage as well. But the real problems holding phage back is not finding them (they're trivial to find in the wild) but operationalizing them. For me, the most foreseeable application of ML to phage work is predictive models of antibiotic treatment failure.