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Machine 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

• Fomite 4y ago
  There'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.