Deep Learning-Guided Discovery and Structural Validation of Marine Toxin Inhibitors

Abstract

Understanding how antitoxins inhibit marine toxin activity and how to exploit this information to discover novel antitoxin medical countermeasures remains a significant knowledge gap. Here, we propose an integrated research program to develop a machine learning platform for in silico antitoxin discovery from vast chemical libraries of >1.5 B compounds. The machine learning platform will be guided by the empirical results of high-throughput chemical screens and structural models of toxin-antitoxin interactions based on cyro-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and computational docking simulations.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Dec 19, 2022
Source ID
HDTRA12210010

Entities

People

  • James J. Collins

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Microbial Pathology
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks
  • Microelectronics