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  "id": 17950007,
  "title": "FedEpitope: Parameter-Efficient Federated Protein Language Models for Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/fedepitope-parameter-efficient-federated-protein-language-models-for",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.31.763304v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Linear B-cell epitopes are antigenic regions recognised by antibodies that play crucial roles in vaccine development, antibody production, and other therapeutic applications.Their prediction can support peptide-based vaccine candidate screening and diagnostic assay development, but the experimental data required for model development may be distributed across institutions that cannot freely pool…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}