Abstract: Disclosed herein are engineered AAV VP capsid polypeptides with the ability to assemble into virus particles and having improved tissue tropism to eye tissues, for example, retinal tissues, retinal pigment epithelial cells, or photoreceptor cells. The capsids are engineered using the high throughput discovery system described herein. In certain embodiments, provided herein are recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) VP capsid polypeptides having at least one mutation in a 581 to 589 region of the VP capsid polypeptide, corresponding to residues 581 to residue 589 of a VP1 polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a polymer sequence for a biological molecule having one or more target biological properties are provided. A plurality of target metric values for one or more target biological properties of a biological molecule and a seed for a nucleic acid or amino acid sequence for the biological molecule are inputted into a conditional generator model of a conditional generative adversarial network to obtain as output from the conditional generator model a nucleic acid or amino acid sequence for the biological molecule that is predicted by the conditional generator model to confer on the biological molecule the one or more target biological properties approximating the plurality of target metric values.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are engineered AAV VP capsid polypeptides with the ability to assemble into virus particles and having improved tissue tropism to, for example, CNS tissues. The capsids are engineered using the high throughput discovery system described herein. In certain embodiments, provided herein are recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) VP capsid polypeptides having at least one mutation in a residue corresponding to residue 581 to residue 589 in SEQ ID NO: 1.