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As members of the Periodic Table of Food initiative (PTFI), a global effort to create a public database of the biochemical composition and function of food, we suggest that artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to devise new proteins as alternative food sources (see Nature 609, 661–662; 2022).

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Nature 611, 665 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03759-5
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