RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Large scale active-learning-guided exploration to maximize cell-free production JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 751669 DO 10.1101/751669 A1 Olivier Borkowski A1 Mathilde Koch A1 Agnès Zettor A1 Amir Pandi A1 Angelo Cardoso Batista A1 Paul Soudier A1 Jean-Loup Faulon YR 2019 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/08/30/751669.abstract AB Lysate-based cell-free systems have become a major platform to study gene expression but batch-to-batch variation makes protein production difficult to predict. Here we describe an active learning approach to explore a combinatorial space of ~4,000,000 cell-free compositions, maximizing protein production and identifying critical parameters involved in cell-free productivity. We also provide a one-step-method to achieve high quality predictions for protein production using minimal experimental effort regardless of the lysate quality.