With generative AI, chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

MIT chemists found a new way to determine 3D genome structures, using generative AI, that can predict thousands of genome structures in minutes, making it much speedier than existing methods for analyzing the structures.

With generative AI, chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression patterns, which ensure that a brain cell is different from a skin cell, are partly determined by the three-dimensional structure of the genetic material, which controls the accessibility of each gene.

MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structures

ChromoGen: MIT chemists have created a quick method to determine 3D genomic structures using generative AI.