GPro
GPro generates synthetic promoter sequences using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) methods to design promoters with defined regulatory properties for applications in synthetic biology and genetic engineering.
Key Features:
- Integration of GenAI methodologies: Integrates state-of-the-art Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) methodologies tailored for promoter design.
- Standardized pipeline: Provides a standardized pipeline encompassing the training, optimization, and evaluation stages of promoter-design models.
- Customizable algorithms: Includes interchangeable algorithmic options for each pipeline stage to enable method comparison and tailoring to experimental needs.
Scientific Applications:
- Synthetic biology: Design and generation of novel synthetic promoters to control gene expression in engineered biological systems.
- Genetic engineering: Design promoters for precise transcriptional control in genetic constructs.
- Gene expression studies: Produce promoter variants to probe promoter function and regulatory element effects in gene expression assays.
- Metabolic engineering: Tune promoter strength and regulation to optimize pathway expression in metabolic engineering projects.
Methodology:
Computational pipeline performs training, optimization, and evaluation of GenAI models for promoter design.
Topics
Details
- License:
- MIT
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- command-line tool
- Operating Systems:
- Linux, Mac, Windows
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Added:
- 6/18/2024
- Last Updated:
- 6/18/2024
Operations
Publications
Wang H, Du Q, Wang Y, Xu H, Wei Z, Wang X. GPro: generative AI-empowered toolkit for promoter design. Bioinformatics. 2024;40(3). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae123. PMID:38429953. PMCID:PMC10937896.
PMID: 38429953
Funding: - National Natural Science Foundation of China: 62225307, 62250007
- Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation: Z230015
Documentation
User manual
https://github.com/WangLabTHU/GPro/wiki/Links
Repository
https://github.com/WangLabTHU/GPro