BLACKSBURG, Va., June 30 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
The same family of artificial intelligence that powers today's image generators is now being aimed at one of biology's hardest puzzles: the ever-changing, three-dimensional shapes of RNA. These are the molecules behind mRNA vaccines like the ones that prevent serious COVID-19 cases.
A new method built by two Virginia Tech computer scientists is matching one of the world's most advanced AI systems at the task of mapping RNA and is doing it with far less data.
The method, called RNAbpFlow, was described in a study published on June 30 in Nature Methods, among the most selective journals in computational life sciences. In a bli...