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sunbeam60@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Someone I know recently published in Nature Communications an enormous study where they used machine learning to pattern match peptides that are clinically significant. Using mass spectrometry, they effectively shoot a sawed off shotgun at a wall then using machine learning to detect pellets that may have interesting effects. This opens up for new understanding in the role peptides play the translational game as well as a potential for a huge amount of new treatments.
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds similar to some of the research my sister has done in her PhD so far. As I understand, she had a bunch of snapshots of proteins from a cryo electron microscope, but these snapshots are 2D. She used ML to construct 3D shapes of different types of proteins. And finding the shape of a protein is important because the shape defines the function. It’s crazy stuff that would be ludicrously difficult and time-consuming to try to do manually.
deafboy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There was an interesting talk about it at the last CCC. However, I also remember a few reports casting doubts upon the results of this method.