AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

technologyreview, 14/01/2021

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Équipe Beesens

AIs that read sentences are now catching coronavirus mutations

" Galileo once observed that nature is written in math. Biology might be written in words. Natural-language processing (NLP) algorithms are now able to generate protein sequences and predict virus mutations, including key changes that help the coronavirus evade the immune system.

The key insight making this possible is that many properties of biological systems can be interpreted in terms of words and sentences. “We’re learning the language of evolution,” says Bonnie Berger, a computational biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.." Lire la suite