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!!! abstract "GitHub Repo stars Doctor GPT implements advanced LLM prompting for organizing, indexing and discussing PDFs, and does so without using any type of opinionated prompt processing frameworks "“

Disease prediction

Genome-wide prediction of disease variant effects with a deep protein language model 'A Model that predects bad genetic variants'

Here we implemented a workflow generalizing ESM1b to protein sequences of any length and used it to predict all ~450 million possible missense variant effects across all 42,336 protein isoforms in the human genome.

The Nucleotide Transformer: Building and Evaluating Robust Foundation Models for Human Genomics A quality set of JAX-enabled transformer models for use in downstream uses.

They use 6mer tokenization and embeddings. Non-commercial license. Github image

Drug synthesis

Generative AI for designing and validating easily synthesizable and structurally novel antibiotics

The authors demonstrate a powerful AI that helps to discover antibiotic chemicals with some demonstrating antibacterial activity.

"""Many generative AI models for drug design are only tested in silico because the molecules they design are synthetically intractable. Without synthesis and wet lab validation, it’s hard to know whether AI-generated molecules actually work as expected.

SyntheMol was built exclusively design easy-to-synthesize molecules to enable wet lab validation. SyntheMol creates molecules using molecular building blocks and chemical reactions from the @EnamineLtd REAL Space of 30 billion molecules, which ensures easy synthesis.

SyntheMol uses a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to explore the vast space of easily synthesizable compounds for promising drug candidates. The MCTS is guided by a trained molecular property prediction model such as a graph neural network (GNN).

We applied SyntheMol to design #antibiotics for A. baumannii, a bacterium with few treatments. We screened ~13,500 compounds against A. baumannii, which we used to train our property prediction models. We then ran SyntheMol to design tens of thousands of antibiotic candidates.

We filtered our #AI-generated #molecules for novelty, predicted efficacy, and diversity, and we worked with @EnamineLtd to #Synthesize 58 #compounds. We found that 6 of those 58 compounds (10% hit rate) were highly potent against A. baumannii and a range of other bacterial species.

SyntheMol can generate molecules that are easy to synthesize and are effective in the wet lab, bridging the gap between AI-based drug design and #experimentall validation.

SyntheMol’s code is fully open-source at https://github.com/swansonk14/SyntheMol. Data, models, and generated molecules for our antibiotics application are at https://zenodo.org/records/10257839.

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Optometry