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This protein-engineering breakthrough generates over 10M data points and turbocharges AI in just three days

Protein engineering is a field primed for artificial intelligence research. Each protein is made up of amino acids; to optimize a protein function, researchers modify proteins by switching out one of 20 different amino acids for another. For a protein that is just 50 amino acids in length, this lead...

This protein-engineering breakthrough generates over 10M data points and turbocharges AI in just three days
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Protein engineering is a field primed for artificial intelligence research. Each protein is made up of amino acids; to optimize a protein function, researchers modify proteins by switching out one of 20 different amino acids for another. For a protein that is just 50 amino acids in length, this leads to approximately 1.13x1065 potential combinations to test—that's 113 followed by 65 zeroes, or five times as many zeroes as a trillion has.

Originally published at Phys.org

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