{"id":238424,"date":"2026-06-05T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/an-ensemble-pipeline-phagehost-for-phage-tail-fiber-discovery-and-accurate-klebsiella-pneumoniae-host-prediction-using-protein-language-models"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:16:32","slug":"an-ensemble-pipeline-phagehost-for-phage-tail-fiber-discovery-and-accurate-klebsiella-pneumoniae-host-prediction-using-protein-language-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/an-ensemble-pipeline-phagehost-for-phage-tail-fiber-discovery-and-accurate-klebsiella-pneumoniae-host-prediction-using-protein-language-models","title":{"rendered":"An ensemble pipeline, PhageHost, for phage tail fiber discovery and accurate Klebsiella pneumoniae host prediction using protein language models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ensemble-pipeline-phagehost-for-phage-tail-fiber-discovery-and-accurate-klebsiella-pneumoniae-host-prediction-using-protein-language-models.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wu et al. present an ensemble pipeline, <i>PhageHost<\/i>, comprising a protein language model, <i>TailSeek<\/i>, for tail fiber detection from phage and prophage genomes and a deep learning model, <i>HostBuster<\/i>, that integrates tail fiber features with host information to predict the lytic potential of phage\u2013<i>K. pneumoniae<\/i> pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wu et al. present an ensemble pipeline, PhageHost, comprising a protein language model, TailSeek, for tail fiber detection from phage and prophage genomes and a deep learning model, HostBuster, that integrates tail fiber features with host information to predict the lytic potential of phage\u2013K. pneumoniae pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}