As an assistant professor in the department ... in Chemistry was partly awarded to a pioneer in the field of computational protein design. "We are on an emerging front of the field," Dong wrote ...

Recent advances in automated protein design algorithms are leading a resurgence ... We have only just begun to scratch the surface of computational protein engineering, and much remains to be ...

Protein design (or protein engineering ... Proteins can be engineered by rational design, which typically uses computational tools to identify useful mutations, or by directed evolution, which ...

1 It served as a proof-of-concept that computational protein design was feasible. Despite the success of the Rosetta software, the accuracy of protein structure prediction remained low—a protein of ...

"Misfolded proteins can malfunction and lead to disease," said Ed O'Brien, professor of chemistry in the Eberly College of Science, a co-hire of the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences ...