Machine learning guided aptamer refinement and discovery

Current aptamer discovery approaches are unable to probe the complete space of possible sequences. Here, the authors use machine learning to facilitate the development of DNA aptamers with improved binding affinities, and truncate them without significantly compromising binding affinity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ali Bashir, Qin Yang, Jinpeng Wang, Stephan Hoyer, Wenchuan Chou, Cory McLean, Geoff Davis, Qiang Gong, Zan Armstrong, Junghoon Jang, Hui Kang, Annalisa Pawlosky, Alexander Scott, George E. Dahl, Marc Berndl, Michelle Dimon, B. Scott Ferguson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22555-9