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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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Is That DNA Dangerous?

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The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo, for example, tried to combine two vaccine strains of Bacillus anthracis to produce an anthrax bioweapon, according to interviews conducted several years later. Entering the DNA sequence into the SecureDNA demo also outputs variola virus, much like BLAST, but it happens in a fraction of the time.

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