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by hoppp 17 hours ago
The biotech work is not even these LLM models.

Alphafold and others solving the protein folding problem are revolutionary.

An LLM can max provide an instructive tutorial protocol for lab work, but designing novel proteins is not it's job.

I am interested to enter the bioinformatics space eventually and the regulation happens at the DNA printer level. Anyone can design yeast nowadays that excretes heroin, but the DNA needed for the genetic modification won't be printed by anyone. As long as DNA printing tech is extremely regulated it's all fine, if home printing becomes a thing then on the other hand maybe people won't even need AI to print deadly pathogens at all. A database lookup will do.