Accurate prediction of virulence factors using pre-train protein language model and ensemble learning.
Journal:
BMC genomics
Published Date:
May 21, 2025
Abstract
BACKGROUND: As bacterial pathogens develop increasing resistance to antibiotics, strategies targeting virulence factors (VFs) have emerged as a promising and effective approach for treating bacterial infections. Existing methods mainly relied on sequence similarity, and remote homology relationships cannot be discovered by sequence analysis alone.