Abstract: A system for identifying biomolecules with a desired property comprises a computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor perform steps comprising collecting a quantity of biomolecular data, transforming the biomolecular data from a sequence space to a latent space representation of the data, compressing the latent space representation using a pooling mechanism, compressing the coarse representation of the biomolecular data using an informational bottleneck, calculating a fitness factor of each data element in the low-dimensional representation of the biomolecular data, choosing a point from within the low-dimensional representation of the biomolecular data, calculating a set of gradients of the fitness factor, selecting an adjacent point having the highest gradient and setting it as the first point, then repeating the gradient calculating step until the fitness factor reaches a convergence point.