New project receives $2.3 million to develop a database and AI model to identify therapeutic peptides
News-Medical reports that a University of Toronto team led by Joseph Brown has received $2.3 million USD from the Google.org Impact Challenge to build OpenPep, a proposed open-access database and AI model for predicting which peptides bind target proteins. The project is at an early stage: the team plans to produce up to 500 disease-relevant proteins and test peptide libraries against them.
Why it matters: Relevant to referring clinicians and readers interested in how peptide-based medicines are discovered and developed.
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