A multidisciplinary ORNL team used expertise in synthetic biology, AI-driven analysis, chemistry, neutrons and materials science to identify new members of a family of enzymes with a natural affinity for degrading synthetic nylon polymers.
Computational scientists and neutron structural biologists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed an integrated workflow using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, and an autoencoder-based deep learn