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Research Opportunities
- ProSPr - Protein Structure Prediction
A cross divisional team of physicists, computer scientists, biologists and chemists implements a novel protein structure prediction pipeline to solve one of the oldest challenges in computational biophysics: The Protein Folding Problem.
We will apply our pipeline to a global community wide blind test in 2020 called CASP14.
The work entails:
- training of convolutional neural networks
- design of simulation algorithms
- high performance super computer usage
- chemical and biological evaluation of results
- Radical SAM Engineering
Together with the Chemistry department at BYU, we are developing algorithms that aid the systematic design of novel enzymes.
These enzymes can be applied to a variety of use cases, such as fertilizer production, detergent production, or drug production.