AI could help us cure cancer, design gene therapies, and fix genetic diseases. But AI is only as good as the data it learns from. AlphaFold only worked because we had decades of data on how proteins fold. For most of precision medicine's hardest problems, that foundational data doesn't exist yet.
One of the biggest gaps: we don't have a good map of the proteins on cell surfaces that control what gets into cells. Without that, neither scientists nor AI models can reliably figure out how to deliver a therapy to the right place in the body. Most drugs in development today cluster around a small set of known targets, not by design, but because the rest of the map is blank.
The @deliverome Project is building that map from scratch, as an open-science nonprofit. They're cataloging which surface proteins exist, how abundant they are across different tissue types, and which ones can actively carry cargo into cells. Everything will be released openly and continuously, in formats ready for researchers and AI models alike.
@JimmyRis@HashtagGriswold for a moment I was picturing stormtroopers in full disco ball mirror armor...
almost certainly not a practical defense against laser weapons, but stylish!
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High-fives all around because #MoMath is reopening on July 1! Who’s as excited as #RyanEggold to ride MoMath’s Square-Wheeled Trike?! 😆 Timed-entry tickets are now on sale at https://t.co/7POaiEQGqe
#math#museum#nyc#NewAmsterdam#damfam#nbc
@gptbrooke@hamiltonianurst meme I made for a regional burning man event where I lead a volunteer team of 75 ppl and was messaging folks an hour before ticket sales closed at midnight
@chercher_ai (I am moderately frustrated about you making up a DM, and also think Chris' joke about downloading a magic spell came across as mocking)
(also tatting is a form of lace-making, which is not the same as weaving but I was speaking in the general genre of fiber arts)
@chrislakin@chercher_ai (and by "download magic spells" I mean everything from commands for filtering spreadsheets, to instructions for fixing my car, weird health stuff, etc)
@chrislakin@chercher_ai it's kinda the vibe of the anti-piracy campaign around, "YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A CAR"
folks were like... I sure would! might run into pragmatic issues tho