How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
César de la Fuente’s lab is utilizing OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT models to automate the identification of antimicrobial peptides within biological datasets. This workflow integrates large language models into the computational pipeline for drug discovery.
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Bioinformatics researchers, pharmaceutical developers, and computational biologists.
It demonstrates the practical application of LLMs in high-stakes scientific research, specifically in accelerating the discovery of life-saving therapeutics through automated sequence analysis.
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The integration involves using Codex to generate code for processing genomic data and ChatGPT to assist in the analysis and interpretation of antimicrobial candidates. By applying these models to both living and extinct genomes, the lab accelerates the screening process for molecules capable of combating antibiotic-resistant pathogens, shifting the bottleneck from manual sequence analysis to model-assisted computational prediction.