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César Ramírez Sarmiento

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TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

So you have different scenarios, and for them, you have different ways of working with them.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And so the idea is that you can train artificial intelligence models on this information about the sequence of a protein, so the sequence of amino acids that compose a protein,

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

or you can train models on the structures of proteins or you can train them on both and then in the computer after like a few days or weeks of work you will have a set of different sequences that will encode these structures or these different brain functions and then what you do after that is that you

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

backtrack those designs from protein information into DNA information, so another form of alphabet.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And then you purchase those genes from these companies that synthesize your genes and then put them into different bacterial or animal cells for expression of these proteins and then testing them out in the lab.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And hopefully, afterwards, you will test them out in real-case scenarios, such as a pilot plan for plastic degradation

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

in animal models for testing for like how to cure a disease.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

Yeah.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

Yeah, that was kind of a funny thing that happened when I was younger.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

I think maybe I was like...

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

eight years old or something like that.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

My mom, she had some like plastic pottery for plants that she was like growing in the garden.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And she said that the snails were eating through them.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

I was like, there's no way that that can happen.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

But the idea remained there for like a long time.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

I was like thinking, oh, maybe it's possible.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

But I just remembered that memory, right?

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And then when I was like in university, I was actually

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

learning about biochemistry, like learning about like proteins and enzymes and all of these things.

TED Talks Daily
The new era of AI-powered protein design | César Ramírez-Sarmiento

And then we had a class about enzymes and how they perform like different chemical reactions.