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Despite this, no other major antibiotic class has been approved for medical use since 1987. Nevertheless, phage tail proteins offer a promising alternative, given their depolymerase activity toward outer membrane polysaccharides. Several pathogenic bacteria harbor prophages, thus making these prophages\u2019 molecular target already known.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We therefore developed a wrapper for an existing machine learning-based phage depolymerase prediction tool (Depolymerase-Predictor), called PDP-Miner, which annotates phage tail proteins ab initio, detects depolymerase activity within this candidate protein subset, and then performs post-hoc validation by annotating protein domains thereby allowing the user to investigate for protein domains indicative of depolymerase activity. This tool allowed identification of 10 high confidence phage depolymerase gene candidates across all 1294 Pseudomonas genomes available on the International Pseudomonas Consortium Database while also accurately reporting depolymerases in known phage genomes, similarly to other software like PhageDPO or DepoScope.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Source code, test datasets and documentation are freely available for download at http:\/\/\/www.github.com\/jeffgauthier\/pdpminer. 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