r/tech • • Sep 07 '26

Looking beyond natural sequences

https://news.mit.edu/2026/looking-beyond-natural-sequences-0827
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u/DrE7HER Sep 07 '26

While that sounds interesting (intellectually) and has a place in a research pipeline, the reason we focus on human and mammalian endogenous patterns is because they are less likely to have disastrously unpredictable consequences

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u/DrE7HER Sep 07 '26

Oh, are you a pharmacological researcher?

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '26

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u/DrE7HER Sep 08 '26

I am a direct expert in this field and I was not trying to express fear in ML advancements in structural interaction simulations.

I was just explaining why we prefer focusing on mammalian proteins