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Escherichia coli, Clostridium difficile, Protein, Antibiotic, Bacteria, Prediction

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Using AI to Find New Antibiotics Still a Work in Progress

Each year, more than 2.8 million people in the United States develop bacterial infections that don’t respond to treatment and sometimes turn life-threatening [1]. Their infections are antibiotic-re…

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On Sep 13, 2022
RT @NIHDirector: Can #artificialintelligence point the way to desperately needed new #antibiotics? Yes, but it won’t be easy. The latest on the #NIH Director’s Blog. https://t.co/nywOvD84hF
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Using AI to Find New Antibiotics Still a Work in Progress

Using AI to Find New Antibiotics Still a Work in Progress

Each year, more than 2.8 million people in the United States develop bacterial infections that don’t respond to treatment and sometimes turn life-threatening [1]. Their infections are ...

Analyzing the potential of AlphaFold in drug discovery

Analyzing the potential of AlphaFold in drug discovery

Using protein structures generated by the AI software AlphaFold, MIT researchers investigated whether existing computational models could identify the mechanisms of action of antibacterial ...

Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery

Hype versus reality: What you can't do with DeepMind's AlphaFold in drug discovery

Protein prediction it can do, the next steps not so much – not that it was trained for this

Burst of Protein Structure Predictions from DeepMind, EMBL

Burst of Protein Structure Predictions from DeepMind, EMBL

AlphaFold, an AI system for predicting protein structures, has enabled DeepMind and the EMBL to release more than 350,000 protein structure predictions, including predictions covering ...

Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI

Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI

A pioneering machine-learning approach has identified powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules — including one that works against a wide range of ...

Combating Antibiotic Resistance

Combating Antibiotic Resistance

As bacterial infections impervious to drugs rise, so does the need to develop better antibiotics

AI tool screens 107 million molecules, discovers potent new antibiotics

AI tool screens 107 million molecules, discovers potent new antibiotics

Deep learning approach could help in fight against drug-resistant bacteria

New public database of AI-predicted protein structures could transform biology

New public database of AI-predicted protein structures could transform biology

DeepMind’s 350,000 structures include 44% of all human proteins

AlphaFold System for Protein Structure Prediction Could Enhance Development of New Drugs

AlphaFold System for Protein Structure Prediction Could Enhance Development of New Drugs

PHILADELPHIA (November 22, 2021)—Fox Chase Cancer Center has begun using a new artificial intelligence-powered system called AlphaFold, which allows researchers to develop accurate ...

AI cracks the code of protein complexes—providing a road map for new drug targets

AI cracks the code of protein complexes—providing a road map for new drug targets

Software maps thousands of the partnered proteins that govern cell biology

How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics

How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics

To fight resistant bacteria, we are turning to new allies.

New Antibiotic From Artificial Intelligence: Kills Dangerous Bacteria

New Antibiotic From Artificial Intelligence: Kills Dangerous Bacteria

Thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), antibiotics have been produced for bacteria that have developed drug resistance. Molecules that…

DeepMind open-sources protein structure dataset generated by AlphaFold 2

DeepMind open-sources protein structure dataset generated by AlphaFold 2

DeepMind, in partnership with the European Bioinformatics Institute, has open-sourced a massive dataset of protein structure predictions.

Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time

Team at MIT says halicin kills some of the world’s most dangerous strains

An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria

An Unexpected Ally in the War With Bacteria

Scientists have struggled to develop new antibiotics. Enter: the machines.

Computer-generated antibiotics, biosensor Band-Aids, and the quest to beat antibiotic resistance

Computer-generated antibiotics, biosensor Band-Aids, and the quest to beat antibiotic resistance

For Penn synthetic biologist César de la Fuente and his team, these concepts aren’t some far-off ideal. They’re projects already in progress, and they have huge real-world implications ...

Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.