{"id":157764,"date":"2023-02-11T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins"},"modified":"2023-02-11T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T04:26:10","slug":"scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Use AI to Create Music through Proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time a language model was used to synthesize human proteins.<\/p>\n<p>Of late, AI models are really flexing their muscles. We have recently seen how <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/culture\/chatgpt-may-expand-discourse-research\">ChatGPT<\/a> has become a poster child for platforms that comprehend human languages. Now a team of researchers has tested a language model to create amino acid sequences, showcasing abilities to replicate human biology and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>The language model, which is named ProGen, is capable of generating <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins\">protein<\/a> sequences with a certain degree of control. The result was achieved by training the model to learn the composition of proteins. The experiment marks the first time a language model was used to synthesize human proteins.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41587-022-01618-2.epdf?sharing_token=aVLbp1GvrSeZIvSkhi-pz9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Pu2lRVFjdUQUZYh-sME0ZJXNR8hm_eLVS0nFdcfW0oHlsdwhvXaENcAYImu6SMIU-QdcYVQlUh9uH-gatSHOy2jVjUsCsJZbuSvtfWrAE0jhNqNCmpAkVv7IzrEfh0Ts2zI4flUxdnaeqtJgHq09-zXc70946bTX5OJifwillk3g&#x0025;3D&#x0025;3D&tracking_referrer=www.vice.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=commission_junction&utm_campaign=CONR_PF018_ECOM_GL_PHSS_ALWYS_DEEPLINK&utm_content=textlink&utm_term=PID100052570&CJEVENT=a8f0c0a7a15811ed808ec3f50a18b8f9\">study<\/a> regarding the research was published in the journal *Nature Biotechnology Thursday. *The project was a combined effort from researchers at the University of California-San Francisco and the University of California-Berkeley and Salesforce Research, which is a science arm of a software company based in San Fransisco.<\/p>\n<p>## The significance of using a language model<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say that a language model was used for its ability to generate protein <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/scientists-have-engineered-a-new-glowing-protein\">sequences <\/a>with a predictable function across large protein families, akin to generating grammatically and semantically correct natural language sentences on diverse topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the same way that words are strung together one-by-one to form text sentences, amino acids are strung together one-by-one to make proteins,\u201d Nikhil Naik, the Director of AI Research at Salesforce Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/3adgvv\/ai-replicated-evolution-and-generated-new-enzymes-as-good-as-natural-ones\">told *Motherboard<\/a>*. The team applied \u201cneural language modeling to proteins for generating realistic, yet novel protein sequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/scientists-use-ai-to-create-music-through-proteins\">Continue reading \u201cScientists Use AI to Create Music through Proteins\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time a language model was used to synthesize human proteins. Of late, AI models are really flexing their muscles. We have recently seen how ChatGPT has become a poster child for platforms that comprehend human languages. Now a team of researchers has tested a language model to create amino acid sequences, showcasing abilities [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}