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Ashok Thillaisundaram

Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)

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Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Research Focus:protein design· 1 Assay:protein sequence· 1

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Designing enzymes for new-to-nature chemistry and non-natural substrates with AlphaProtein Novo

Zachary Wu, Josh Abramson, Thomas Frerix, Alexander E. Chu, Ruijie K. Zhang, Luca Schulz, Amy E. Danson, Tristan O. C. Kwan, Li Kevin Wenliang, Jacob Kelly, Zi‐Qi Li, Rosalia G. Schneider, Ashok Thillaisundaram, Harshnira Hitesh Patani, Vinícius Zambaldi, , Jue Wang

This paper introduces AlphaProtein Novo, a machine-learning pipeline for de novo enzyme design that outperforms natural sequence mining in creating enzymes for new-to-nature chemistry and substrates.

bioRxiv · Oct 5, 2026 · PreprintSynthetic Biology