A new computational language, which can describe biology like a biologist, has been developed by Jeremy Gunawardena, director of the Virtual Cell Program in Harvard Medical School. This would help researchers in studying drug interactions among other things, right on the computer. The key to this technology is the Little b, which is written in a language called the LISP. The language is widely used in artificial intelligence research and has the ability to bypass the limitations posed by most programs and languages. It surprisingly creates it’s own code and can also write it’s own code. Little b doesn’t deal with the human DNA but the underlying protein, which is far more complex. It also works on kinases, which is an enzyme that moves phosphate groups from molecules to molecules. The language builds all the inferences you want and reduces your effort and also the time you need to waste. This might open doors to new medicinal and pharmaceutical developments.
Via: DailyGalaxy
