Yes, I do know the physics involved on some level, and some about the computational methods.
I think that, if deep learning can predict protein folding then it should eventually be able to predict protein binding as well, since most of the physics is the same: it’s just amino acids on two different peptide chains interacting, instead of amino acids on the same chain.
On the other hand, predicting which reaction an enzyme catalyzes involves more physics, so it could be much harder: but then again, maybe it isn’t. Or maybe we can at least predict with which biomolecules a given protein is likely to react and do experimental work to find out the details.
Yes, I do know the physics involved on some level, and some about the computational methods.
I think that, if deep learning can predict protein folding then it should eventually be able to predict protein binding as well, since most of the physics is the same: it’s just amino acids on two different peptide chains interacting, instead of amino acids on the same chain.
On the other hand, predicting which reaction an enzyme catalyzes involves more physics, so it could be much harder: but then again, maybe it isn’t. Or maybe we can at least predict with which biomolecules a given protein is likely to react and do experimental work to find out the details.