AllTheBacteria turns 2.44 million genomes into an AI-ready resource for new antibiotics
shae_mcl · x · 2026-07-22
A quoted discussion argues that biology has far less labeled data than AI systems usually need: many disease-relevant protein targets have fewer than 20 binding datapoints, while deep learning often needs 1,000+ examples and balanced labels to generalize well.
The reply points to the preprint AllTheBacteria, which turns 2.44 million public bacterial and archaeal genomes into a uniformly processed, searchable, AI-ready resource. The paper uses that platform to find new peptide antibiotics, including ATB20, which reduced Acinetobacter baumannii burden in a mouse skin-abscess model with efficacy comparable to polymyxin B.
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