Leveraging artificial intelligence in the fight against infectious diseases

F Wong, C de la Fuente-Nunez, JJ Collins - Science, 2023 - science.org
Despite advances in molecular biology, genetics, computation, and medicinal chemistry,
infectious disease remains an ominous threat to public health. Addressing the challenges …

Elucidating the mechanisms of action of antimicrobial agents

MA Hudson, SW Lockless - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite the ever-growing antibiotic resistance crisis, the rate at which new antimicrobials are
being discovered and approved for human use has rapidly declined over the past 75 years …

[PDF][PDF] Genus-wide transcriptional landscapes reveal correlated gene networks underlying microevolutionary divergence in diatoms

NG Walworth, JL Espinoza, PA Argyle… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Marine microbes like diatoms make up the base of marine food webs and drive global
nutrient cycles. Despite their key roles in ecology, biogeochemistry, and biotechnology, we …

Perturbation-specific transcriptional mapping for unbiased target elucidation of antibiotics

KP Romano, J Bagnall, T Warrier, J Sullivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The rising prevalence of antibiotic resistance threatens human health. While more
sophisticated strategies for antibiotic discovery are being developed, target elucidation of …

VEBA: a modular end-to-end suite for in silico recovery, clustering, and analysis of prokaryotic, microeukaryotic, and viral genomes from metagenomes

JL Espinoza, CL Dupont - BMC bioinformatics, 2022 - Springer
Background With the advent of metagenomics, the importance of microorganisms and how
their interactions are relevant to ecosystem resilience, sustainability, and human health has …

[HTML][HTML] Recent Applications of Explainable AI (XAI): A Systematic Literature Review

M Saarela, V Podgorelec - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
This systematic literature review employs the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic
Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology to investigate recent applications of …

Interactions between fecal gut microbiome, enteric pathogens, and energy regulating hormones among acutely malnourished rural Gambian children

HM Nabwera, JL Espinoza, A Worwui, M Betts… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The specific roles that gut microbiota, known pathogens, and host energy-
regulating hormones play in the pathogenesis of non-edematous severe acute malnutrition …

Validating a promoter library for application in plasmid-based diatom genetic engineering

EA Garza, VA Bielinski, JL Espinoza… - ACS Synthetic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While diatoms are promising synthetic biology platforms, there currently exists a limited
number of validated genetic regulatory parts available for genetic engineering. The standard …

A silent operon of Photorhabdus luminescens encodes a prodrug mimic of GTP

N Shahsavari, B Wang, Y Imai, M Mori, S Son, L Liang… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
With the overmining of actinomycetes for compounds acting against Gram-negative
pathogens, recent efforts to discover novel antibiotics have been focused on other groups of …

Differential network analysis of oral microbiome metatranscriptomes identifies community scale metabolic restructuring in dental caries

JL Espinoza, M Torralba, P Leong, R Saffery… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Dental caries is a microbial disease and the most common chronic health condition,
affecting nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide. In this study, we used a multiomics approach to …