Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is fascinating and frightening. It’s only a matter of time until there is the next lockdown.

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  • crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well the models were trained on bacteriophages, so it’s pretty much impossible that the viruses could be human pathogens, still scary af though lol

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  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.

    Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?

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• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What’s the worst that could happen

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