Artificial Intelligence creates proteins

We are approaching a time when it will be necessary to psychoanalyze computation, as researchers at the University of Chicago are doing to learn how artificial intelligence figured out a protein structure.   “In the research, the team studied the chorismate mutase family of metabolic enzymes, a kind of protein essential for bacteria, fungi, and plants. With their machine-learning models, they were then able to decode the design rules behind the proteins. To see how they worked, the researchers then created synthetic genes to encode for proteins, cloned them into bacteria, and watched them proliferate. All in all, they saw that their artificial proteins had the same catalytic function as natural chorismate mutase proteins.”  The next question was how did AI do that?    MORE

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