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

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Using Machine Learning to Predict Mutations

There's obviously a lot of hope in transfer learning where you can actually try to transfer the information that the machine learning learns about the proper protein sequences. And so there is some promise in going this direction. But if we have this, it would be extremely useful because then we could essentially forecast the potential mutations that would make current strain more or less pathogenic. Anticipate them from a vaccine development for treatment, anti-viral drug development. It would be a very crucial task.

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