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#153 – Dmitry Korkin: Evolution of Proteins, Viruses, Life, and AI

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How to Study Extraterrestrial Molecules

Leatherberg wanted to make a system that would help him study the extraterrestrial molecules. The idea of Leatherberg was to connect chemistry, computer science and to design this so-called expert system. It takes as an input the mass spec data, the possible database of possible molecules,. And essentially try to sort of induce the molecule that would correspond to this spectra or, you know, essentially the what this project ended up being is that it would provide a list of candidates for analysis.

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