{"id":224114,"date":"2025-10-27T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/supercomputer-developed-ai-learns-the-intricate-language-of-biomolecules"},"modified":"2025-10-27T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:05:04","slug":"supercomputer-developed-ai-learns-the-intricate-language-of-biomolecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/supercomputer-developed-ai-learns-the-intricate-language-of-biomolecules","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer-developed AI learns the intricate language of biomolecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercomputer-developed-ai-learns-the-intricate-language-of-biomolecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-64512-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, the cross-disciplinary team developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/large+language+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large language model<\/a> (LLM), called PLM-Interact, to better understand <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> interactions, and even predict which mutations will impact how these crucial molecules \u201ctalk\u201d to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Early tests of PLM-interact, a protein language model (PLM), show that it outperforms competing models in understanding and predicting how proteins interact with one another. The team\u2019s research demonstrates PLM-interact could help us better understand key areas of medical science, including the development of diseases such as cancer and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/virus+infection\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Glasgow have harnessed a powerful supercomputer, normally used by astronomers and physicists to study the universe, to develop a new machine learning model which can help translate the language of proteins. In a new study published in Nature Communications, the cross-disciplinary team developed a large language model (LLM), called PLM-Interact, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224114","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}