[q-bio.BM] The last five-plus years have seen many protein engineering disciplines transformed by advances in machine learning (ML), but the same cannot be said for directed evolution.
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Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life
ReactionAtlas: Ab Origine Exploration Of Chemical Reaction Networks With Machine Learning
[cs.LG] Mapping a chemical reaction network, the graph of minima and transition states (TS) and the elementary reactions connecting them, is the natural language of chemistry, from catalysis to combustion […]
Posted inPlanetary Protection & Biosafety
Predicting Fungal Contaminants for Space Missions Using Proteome-Wide Screening for Protein Orthologs
[biorxiv.org]. Fungal contamination poses a growing threat to spacecraft integrity, crew health, and planetary protection efforts.
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Transit Searches for Habitable-Zone Exoplanets with Artificial Intelligence
[astro-ph.EP]. Searching for Earth-sized planets in stellar habitable zones ultimately means finding a small number of very shallow, widely separated transits in noisy light curves.
Life And Space 2026
Three days. Six major topics. One question connecting them all: what can science tell us about life in the Universe? From 4–6 December 2026, the Polish Astrobiology Society invites you […]
Posted inAI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics
Autonomous Multi-Agent Reconstruction of Prebiotic Reaction Networks Reveals Organizational Features of Amino Acid Synthesis
[chemrxiv.org] Decades of origin-of-life research have uncovered hundreds of prebiotically plausible reactions across hydrothermal, surface, and biochemical environments, yet this knowledge remains fragmented across chemistry, geochemistry, and astrobiology. Here we […]
2nd European Interstellar Symposium
Hosted by The Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts in association with The Interstellar Research Group and The International Academy of Astronautics. The aim is to bring together a […]
From Gaia to GaiaNIR: Science from Precision Astrometry Across the Universe and Beyond the Extinction Barrier
This conference celebrates the achievements of the MWGaiaDN Doctoral Network, which features PhD projects focused on the science that can be extracted from Gaia DR3 and Gaia DR4. Topics covered […]
The Galactic Journey of the Solar System: Astronomical, Geological, and Paleo-Climatological Perspectives
As Earth orbits the Sun, the Solar System itself revolves around the center of the Milky Way, moving through a continuously changing Galactic environment. In addition to its mean orbital […]
SpaceCHI 2026
Space exploration is at the dawn of a new era. Major reductions in launch costs and the rise of the private space industry are rapidly democratizing access to space. Once […]