#19 - Dr Andrei Lupas on Proteins

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04/21/21 • 49 min

Dr Andrei Lupas takes us through the fundamental building blocks of life: proteins. We analyse what they are, how they've evolved and how they might change in the future. Andrei was also one of the first to see Alphafold in action as he judged them at the CASP protein folding competition, so we explore the possibilities that Alphafold brings.
Dr Andrei Lupas: http://eb.mpg.de/protein-evolution/

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#18 - Dr Risto Miikkulainen on Evolutionary Computation

Computer scientist, Dr Risto Miikkulainen, shows us how we can come up with novel solutions in science by simulating evolution using computers. From bioinformatics to webpage design, the applications of this field are huge.
Image with thanks to Helsingin Sanomat https://www.hs.fi/
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Paper on surprising anecdotes of evolution: https://direct.mit.edu/artl/article/26/2/274/93255/The-Surprising-Creativity-of-Digital-Evolution-A

Microsite on ESP (Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription): https://evolution.ml/esp/

Evolutionary Computation software:

ECJ: https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/ecj/
DEAP: https://github.com/DEAP/deap

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#20 - Dr Joaquin Vanschoren on Making Data Public

Having founded OpenML, Dr Joaquin Vanschoren wants scientists to make their data public. OpenML aims to use this data to train many machine learning models and therefore create huge advances in this field.