Introduction

The vacation before arriving as a freshman at Penn I had a vision of a world in which scientists and researchers from around the world will be able to easily design and build complex protein nanostructures from scratch (to help solve pressing problems like fighting hard-to-reach tumors or drug delivery).

Today, is a very very veryy small step taken towards that vision, but at least I’ve gotten off the couch.

In the meantime, I’ve devised multiple novel innovations spanning from tools and rough ideas to full-on molecular computation systems (most of which is proprietary).

Recently, I thought it might be a good idea to build a rough prototype of a tool I was thinking might help me get closer towards my goals. It’s a modular way researchers can design and build de novo proteins in 3D. Here are a few snapshots I’ve taken during my trials: