UNC Charlotte researchers use AI to map out world’s largest cultivated bacteria-killing virus
Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a multidisciplinary team across four universities have successfully resolved the entire genome of “phage G,” the largest bacterial virus (aka bacteriophages or phages) ever cultivated in a physical lab environment.
Published Sept. 30 in leading journal Nature’s NPJ Viruses, the study was led by UNC Charlotte master’s students Andra Buchan and Stephanie Wiedman along with UNC Charlotte Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics Richard Allen White III.