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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

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The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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Codon Digest: Discovering Antibiotics with Deep Learning

Codon

The researchers first compared the editing efficiency of different versions of IscB when coupled with 'ωRNA,' which guides the enzyme to the right spot on the DNA. A particular variant, named IscB*-ωRNA*, had the highest editing efficiency across multiple different sites in the genome. Read more in Nature Methods.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

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A live demo is available online, but “it chews through OpenAI credits,” Patel says. There’s a live demo available online. “Right now, it can only make one protein at a time,” Gershon says, simply because the demo has limited compute resources. “Every query is like $2.” A Mycoplasma cell.

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Codon Digest: Hackathon Prize Winners

Codon

A live demo is available online, but “it chews through OpenAI credits,” Patel says. There’s a live demo available online. “Right now, it can only make one protein at a time,” Gershon says, simply because the demo has limited compute resources. “Every query is like $2.” A Mycoplasma cell.

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Is That DNA Dangerous?

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Entering the DNA sequence into the SecureDNA demo also outputs variola virus, much like BLAST, but it happens in a fraction of the time. The Biological Defense Research Directorate, located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, uses portable nucleic acid synthesis machines to make RNA or DNA on-demand. Bioinformatic results from SecureDNA.

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