Rare-earth gene discovery via cross-metal inference
Use cross-metal response structure to rank candidates for first rare-earth-element fitness experiments.
Opportunity Hooks
Rare-earth gene discovery via cross-metal inference
Direction
Infer candidate rare-earth response genes from cross-metal fitness patterns and combine that ranking with lanthanide methylotrophy marker evidence to design first experiments.
Why It Is High Value
Rare-earth elements are critical-mineral targets, but direct fitness data appears missing. Cross-metal correlation and specificity structure can prioritize gene families, while the lanthanide atlas prioritizes marker sets, taxa, environments, and annotation sources.
Output
A ranked gene-family and organism list with predicted REE relevance, marker-source evidence, confidence, expected pleiotropy, and experimental validation design.