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Arcade claw machine picks out correct RNA shape from pool of possible RNA structures
In this artistic drawing of an arcade claw machine, a smart claw picks out the correct RNA shape from a pool of possible RNA structures. A new artificial intelligence algorithm can pick out an RNA molecule’s 3D shape from incorrect shapes. Computational prediction of the structures into which RNAs fold is particularly important -- and particularly difficult -- because so few structures are known.
[Research supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.]
Learn more in the Stanford University news story Stanford machine learning algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever before. (Date image taken: 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Jan. 20, 2022)
Credit: Camille Townshend
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