Researchers Use Music To Study Proteins And Design New Ones

Researchers at MIT created an app to turn proteins into music, to access complicated protein information in a new way. Based on these protein-derived musical pieces, they trained neural networks to create new music, which could then be turned into protein structures. MIT researchers developed an app that can turn a protein's amino acid sequence into music. More than just an amusing activity, this music can train neural networks to create entirely new proteins. Understanding the exact correlation between protein structure and function is an ongoing research question in biochemistry.