A descriptor-free machine learning framework to improve antigen discovery for bacterial pathogens

• Marco Podda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Podda, Alina Sîrbu, Corrado Priami, Alessandro Brozzi

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marco.podda@unipi.it

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Pisa, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1497-9515

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• Castrense Savojardo ,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Università di Bologna, Via Belmeloro, 6, Bologna, Italy

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• Pier Luigi Martelli ,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Università di Bologna, Via Belmeloro, 6, Bologna, Italy

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• Rita Casadio ,

  Roles Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, Università di Bologna, Via Belmeloro, 6, Bologna, Italy

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• Alina Sîrbu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Podda, Alina Sîrbu, Corrado Priami, Alessandro Brozzi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Pisa, Italy

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• Corrado Priami ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Podda, Alina Sîrbu, Corrado Priami, Alessandro Brozzi

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, Pisa, Italy

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• Alessandro Brozzi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco Podda, Alina Sîrbu, Corrado Priami, Alessandro Brozzi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation GSK Vaccines, Via Fiorentina, 1, Siena, Italy

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