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Deep-mining the archaeal proteome for antibiotics

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A deep-learning algorithm unravels a collection of archaeasins, peptides from the archaeal proteome with potential antimicrobial activity and implications for the development of next-generation antibiotics

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Fig. 1: Discovery of potential antimicrobial EPs from the archaeal proteome.

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