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It seems like one potential endpoint of this type of research, beyond the medical applications, would be to explore the effects of synthetic amino acids that al
by jcims 5y ago
It seems like one potential endpoint of this type of research, beyond the medical applications, would be to explore the effects of synthetic amino acids that allow the incorporation of other materials into the protein output.
This could open the door to materials synthesis and other types of fabrication.
- cowsandmilk 5y agoAlphaFold is heavily based on sequence alignments, which means incorporating synthetic amino acids would be extremely difficult as there is no input data for them. There would need to be a different leap forward for this use case.
- mrestko 5y agoWhatever you're imaging, it's likely it could be accomplished with the standard compliment of amino acids.