Felix Wong1,2,3, Erica J Zheng1,4,5, Jacqueline A Valeri1,2,5

  • 1Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Nature
|December 20, 2023
PubMed
概括

研究人员开发了一种可解释的深度学习方法来发现新的抗生素结构类. 这种方法可以识别关键的化学基质,从而产生对MRSA等耐药细菌有效的新型抗生素.

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