Protein Design

  • what is a protein and its structure
  • what is protein design
  • how cool is DeepMind's AlphaFold 2
  • basics of protein wrangling and visualization

Amino Acid

Primary Structure

Secondary Structure

Protein Design

A technique by which proteins with enhanced or novel functional properties are created

  • pick the right template
  • optimize its sequence with the right residues
  • score the result
  • find use for it

Principles

AlphaFold 2

GitHub

AlphaFold released 350,000 protein structures with a plan to release 100 million more to cover all proteins known to humanity

Cool Papers & Blogs

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome 🔗
  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold 🔗
  • Recent advances in de novo protein design: Principles, methods, and applications 🔗