@dargason

Data science, compchem, and structural biology. I turn numbers into other numbers to make digital arts and crafts.

 Durham, NC
Joined September 2009
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When a suspicious chemical enters the body, the protein PXR helps decide whether it stays or gets excreted. Drugs can activate PXR, often with toxic results. Predicting PXR activity is very difficult, and an open challenge has crowdsourced solutions.

The Body's Unpredictable Chemical Junk Detector: Crowdsourcing Better PXR Models

The human body is constantly defending itself against chemicals: the outside world is full of foreign molecules, xenobiotics, that are not part of normal cellular function and potentially toxic. The …

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