Samuel Lowden

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Tim Watkin |Samuel Lowden

Every year 100,000 people worldwide die from venomoussnakebites, and three times as many suffer permanent disabilities. A team at the University of Washington has just publishedgroundbreaking work using deep learning to assist in the design of new snakeantivenoms, by designing proteins de novo to bindneurotoxins. It is exciting to see a real-life example ofartificial intelligence (AI) being used to identify promisingtherapeutic candidates.