Broad Institute
Harvard-MIT genomics research centre that collaborated on using machine learning to identify the antibiotic halicin.
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MIT Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Halicin, an Antibiotic Effective Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria
On 20 February 2020, James Collins and colleagues at MIT published research in Cell describing a deep-learning model trained to predict antibiotic activity; the model identified halicin, a compound previously investigated for diabetes treatment, as a potent broad-spectrum antibiotic capable of killing several drug-resistant bacterial strains.