Language AI for RNA Virus and RNA Vaccine

Abstract:

Linguistics and biology are two sides of the same coin. This talk features several highly unexpected connections between them which yield efficient algorithms with substantial biological impacts. One such connection (Nature, 2023) is between messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines and formal language theory. Although widely used in COVID, these vaccines still suffer from instability. But how to design more stable and efficient mRNAs? Here we show a surprising reduction of the mRNA design problem to the classical (1961) concept of …

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