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Boyce, C.

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LLM-Assisted Functional Gene Annotation

Functional gene annotation is a highly manual and subjective process that requires analysis of large amounts of statistical and literature results. Here we present Artificial Intelligence Gene Enrichment (AIGE), a careful automation of the current state of the art process used by bioinformatic experts to deter-mine functions enriched in novel or experimentally derived gene lists. In 1206 test cases, AIGE is able to accurately recover 87% of biological functions, path-ways, and cell types, is robust to noise contamination, and accurately assesses its own self-confidence. AIGE reports provide accurate functional annotations and encourage further research in a broad set of contexts.

bioinformatics↗

Activity of Tricyclic Pyrrolopyrimidine Gyrase B Inhibitor against Mycobacterium abscessus

Tricyclic pyrrolopyrimidines (TPPs) are a new class of antibacterials inhibiting the ATPase of DNA gyrase. TPP8, a representative of this class, is active against Mycobacterium abscessus in vitro. Spontaneous TPP8 resistance mutations mapped to the ATPase domain of M. abscessus DNA gyrase and the compound inhibited DNA supercoiling activity of recombinant M. abscessus enzyme. Further profiling of TPP8 in macrophage and mouse infection studies demonstrated proof-of-concept activity against M. abscessus ex vivo and in vivo.

microbiology↗