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Computational biology and bioinformatics
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Cellular atlases are unlocking the mysteries of the human body
ITAI YANAI: Exploring human systems with cellular maps When early European naturalists travelled to South America, they revelled…
Computational technologies of the Human Cell Atlas
Single-cell technologies have shattered the fuzzy lenses through which researchers conventionally view biology. Instead of looking at the…
Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
Friends share more than just food when they dine together.Credit: Getty A shared meal, a kiss on the…
Ab initio characterization of protein molecular dynamics with AI2BMD
Protein fragmentation approach Generally speaking, proteins are composed of 20 kinds of amino acid, each of which has…
Five structural-biology questions that still challenge AI
Alena Khmelinskaia wants designing bespoke proteins to be as simple as ordering a meal. Picture a vending machine,…
Tumour atlases enable researchers to navigate through cancers
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 30 October 2024 The current wave of papers from the Human Tumor Atlas Network represents a…
The genetic architecture of protein stability
Combinatorial mutagenesis library designs Combinatorial library 1 Library 1 was designed using a computationally efficient greedy strategy to…
AI made of jelly ‘learns’ to play Pong — and improves with practice
Pong was first played by humans in the 1970s.Credit: SSPL/Getty Images A basic artificial intelligence (AI) system made…
A spatial expression atlas of the adult human proximal small intestine
Moor, A. E., Harnik, Y., Ben-Moshe, S., Massasa, E. E., Rozenberg, M., Eilam, R., Bahar Halpern, K. &…
Multiscale topology classifies cells in subcellular spatial transcriptomics
TopACT TopACT operates on subcellular-resolution spatial transcriptomics data. These data take the form of a grid of spots…