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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2024

Evolutionary algorithms simulating molecular evolution: a new field proposal.

James S L Browning, Daniel R Tauritz, John Beckmann

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

James S L BrowningDepartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, 3101 Shelby Center, Auburn, AL 36849-5347, United States.ORCID 0009-0005-4571-209X
Daniel R TauritzDepartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, 3101 Shelby Center, Auburn, AL 36849-5347, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8233-7701
John BeckmannDepartment of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University College of Agriculture, 301 Funchess Hall, Auburn, AL 36845, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7398-9647

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The genetic blueprint for the essential functions of life is encoded in DNA, which is translated into proteins-the engines driving most of our metabolic processes. Recent advancements in genome sequencing have unveiled a vast diversity of protein families, but compared with the massive search space of all possible amino acid sequences, the set of known functional families is minimal. One could say nature has a limited protein "vocabulary." A major question for computational biologists, therefore, is whether this vocabulary can be expanded to include useful proteins that went extinct long ago or have never evolved (yet). By merging evolutionary algorithms, machine learning, and bioinformatics, we can develop highly customized "designer proteins." We dub the new subfield of computational evolution, which employs evolutionary algorithms with DNA string representations, biologically accurate molecular evolution, and bioinformatics-informed fitness functions, Evolutionary Algorithms Simulating Molecular Evolution.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyEvolution, MolecularComputer SimulationProteinsProteinsartificial intelligencebiotechnologycomputational biologycomputational evolutionevolutionary algorithmsgenetic programmingmolecular evolutionproteomics

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PMID39129360
PMCPMC11317538

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