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DeepChain™
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Proteins...
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- are the driving force of life, they catalyze reactions, transport and react to signals, build tissues, maintain balance in organism, detect and protect us from infections
- are long, linear sequences of 20 different amino acids and their function relies on the 3D structure they acquire once they are formed
- structure can be modified by mutations to the amino acid sequence, and thus, modifying this sequence
-  can acquire new or improved functions that can be used to find new medicines and vaccines

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What is DeepChain™ ?
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DeepChain™ optimises the design of new protein molecules to attain novel activity, behavior, or purpose, and to advance basic understanding of protein function. DeepChain™ at the crossroads of AI and Biology.

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DeepChain™ MODULES & FEATURES
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- **Playground**: Leverage AI models trained using UniRef100 with data on 2.1B proteins to uncover novel protein sequences and discover new protein properties

- **AI Designer**: Optimize your protein candidate sequence to its highest binding affinity towards a target, maximizing its specificity and reducing off-target effects

- **Molecular Dynamics**: Explore the behaviour of your existing protein complexes or the newly generated sequences using AI designer through powerful in-silico molecular dynamics simulation

- **Jupyter Notebook**: Conduct personalised analyses of all your structures in hosted jupyter notebooks, with the help of any Python or R library

.. tip:: Create a free account on `deepchain <https://deepchain.bio>`_ in 2 minutes to discover protein design features.

DeepChain apps for protein design
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In general, protein design is a multi-objective optimisation challenge.

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Deepchain apps allows you to build your own custom score that you can optimize during the process.


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If you want to know more about how to create, build and deploy, have a look at the `quickstart <https://deepchain-apps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/quick_start.html>`_
and the `apps basic <https://deepchain-apps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/apps_building.html>`_ section.


How to use my app in DeepChain™?
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In the **AI Designer**, when launching an experiment, you can select multiple apps and scores to guide the optimization process.

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Deepchain hub
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The hub allows having a look at the work of other researchers in biology. This is the place where you can find public apps.

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Deepchain personal account
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To deploy your application on deepchain with the `cli`, you need to generate a personal access token in the settings part.

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