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Biochemistry epq

I'm going into year 13 and want to do an EPQ, and the topics that interest me most are protein structure/ folding, metabolic processes (e.g. respiration), quantum chemistry/ biology, however there aren't any 'questions' for these topics - theyre quite yes or no - and as i understand it in the EPQ you have to have some kind of opinion.My first choice topics would probably be the role of quantum tunneling in biological processes OR the predictability of protein folding (+ the use of AI) - would either of these be possible to do well in, and if not what biochemistry topics would be good to do?
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by vicious-skeleton
I'm going into year 13 and want to do an EPQ, and the topics that interest me most are protein structure/ folding, metabolic processes (e.g. respiration), quantum chemistry/ biology, however there aren't any 'questions' for these topics - theyre quite yes or no - and as i understand it in the EPQ you have to have some kind of opinion.My first choice topics would probably be the role of quantum tunneling in biological processes OR the predictability of protein folding (+ the use of AI) - would either of these be possible to do well in, and if not what biochemistry topics would be good to do?

Hi @vicious-skeleton

The use of AI/ML in protein structure solving is a really interesting topic with lots of ethical debates about access to scientific knowledge and the data models are trained on.

Here's some random articles I've pulled - I've not fully read them over but it could give you an interesting starting point?

Secure AI Collaboration Will Fine-Tune OpenFold3 with Proprietary Data
AlphaFold is running out of data so drug firms are building their own version
Open or Closed Artificial Intelligence: How Science Suffers When Technology is in the Hands of Big Companies

Rebecca (Lancaster Student Ambassador)
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