Originally published at: Accelerated Sequence Alignment for Protein Design with MMseqs2 and NVIDIA NIM | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Protein sequence alignment—comparing protein sequences for similarities—is fundamental to modern biology and medicine. It illuminates gene functions by reconstructing evolutionary relationships, technically called homology inference, that can inform drug development. When scientists discover or design a new protein, they can align it with known protein sequences to infer its structure and function. This homology search…