A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins

PHYSorg
Apr 3, 2024, 10:50 am115 pts
To engineer proteins with useful functions, researchers usually begin with a natural protein that has a desirable function, such as emitting fluorescent light, and put it through many rounds of random mutation that eventually generate an optimized version of the protein.

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