{"id":84836,"date":"2018-11-17T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ai-heralds-new-frontiers-for-predicting-enzyme-activity"},"modified":"2018-11-17T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T21:43:08","slug":"ai-heralds-new-frontiers-for-predicting-enzyme-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ai-heralds-new-frontiers-for-predicting-enzyme-activity","title":{"rendered":"AI heralds new frontiers for predicting enzyme activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-heralds-new-frontiers-for-predicting-enzyme-activity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering Science at the University of Oxford have found a general way of predicting enzyme activity. Enzymes are the protein catalysts that perform most of the key functions in Biology. Published in <i>Nature Chemical Biology<\/i>, the researchers\u2019 novel AI approach is based on the enzyme\u2019s sequence, together with the screening of a defined \u2018training set\u2019 of substrates and the right chemical parameters to define them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-ai-heralds-frontiers-enzyme.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-ai-heralds-frontiers-enzyme.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Engineering Science at the University of Oxford have found a general way of predicting enzyme activity. Enzymes are the protein catalysts that perform most of the key functions in Biology. Published in Nature Chemical Biology, the researchers\u2019 novel AI approach is based on the enzyme\u2019s sequence, together with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84836","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=84836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}