Artificial proteins obtained thanks to machine learning – Euro X live – IAM Network

Proteins are fundamental molecules for life and are able to perform many functions, from creating structures to being catalysts for chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers, for years, have been looking for a way to create new proteins and make them perform new tasks. Thanks to machine learning the target seems close.Researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago developed an artificial intelligence that uses machine learning algorithms (which you can learn more about here) to design new proteins.Taking advantage of the huge databases on proteins, created starting from the decoding of the genome of many living species, scientists have found a relatively simple rule for building new proteins. When they produced them in the laboratory, the researchers observed that they are able to rival those produced in nature."We "We have found that the genome contains a huge amount of data on the basic structures of proteins, we are now able to use the rules of nature to create artificial …