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AI trained on bacterial genomes produces never-before-seen proteins

10 hours ago
  • #Protein prediction
  • #AI in biology
  • #Genomic language model
  • AI systems have successfully predicted protein structures and designed functional proteins.
  • Biological changes start at the nucleic acid level, not directly at the protein level.
  • Bacterial genomes can help AI predict novel proteins due to gene clustering.
  • Stanford researchers developed a 'genomic language model' called Evo using bacterial genomes.
  • Evo predicts the next base in a sequence and can generate novel sequences with randomness.