{"id":163391,"date":"2023-05-05T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-use-generative-ai-to-design-novel-proteins"},"modified":"2023-05-05T15:24:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T20:24:54","slug":"researchers-use-generative-ai-to-design-novel-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-use-generative-ai-to-design-novel-proteins","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use generative AI to design novel proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-generative-ai-to-design-novel-proteins.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.<\/p>\n<p>The system will help advance the field of generative biology, which promises to speed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug development<\/a> by making the design and testing of entirely new therapeutic proteins more efficient and flexible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur model learns from image representations to generate fully new proteins, at a very high rate,\u201d says Philip M. Kim, a professor in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at U of T\u2019s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. \u201cAll our proteins appear to be biophysically real, meaning they fold into configurations that enable them to carry out specific functions within cells.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney. The system will help advance the field of generative biology, which promises to speed drug development by making the design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163391","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}