Saturday, September 17, 2022

Scientists are using AI to hallucinate revolutionary new and complex proteins

Amazing stuff! And this is only the beginning!

"... Now, thanks to ... advances in artificial intelligence (AI), a team ... reports in Science that it can design such molecules in seconds instead of months. ...
Such efforts are a part of a scientific sea change, as AI tools such as [Google] DeepMind’s protein-structure-prediction software AlphaFold [released in 2018] are embraced by life scientists. ...
the team’s creations included giant rings with complex symmetries, unlike anything found in nature. In theory, the approach could be used to design nanoparticles corresponding to almost any symmetric shape ...
Last year, DeepMind launched a spin-off company called Isomorphic Labs in London that intends to apply AI tools such as AlphaFold to drug discovery. ..."

Scientists are using AI to dream up revolutionary new proteins Huge advances in artificial intelligence mean researchers can design completely original molecules in seconds instead of months.





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