A total of 23,561 (out of 210296, Supplementary Data 3) pathogenicity-associated k-mers correlated with high in vitro phenotype scores, corresponding to 61 genes: 17 involved in biofilm formation; 18 in cell toxicity; 8 in IL-8 response to infection in blood; 18 in methicillin resistance (Supplementary Data 1, Fig. 3f, Supplementary Notes). Here, CXCL8 is linked to infection.