![]() ![]() The tools are inspired by AI software that synthesizes realistic images, such as the Midjourney software that, this year, was famously used to produce a viral image of Pope Francis wearing a designer white puffer jacket. βItβs been a completely transformative moment,β says Gevorg Grigoryan, the co-founder and chief technical officer of Generate Biomedicines in Somerville, Massachusetts, a biotechnology company applying protein design to drug development. These proteins could form the basis for vaccines, therapeutics and biomaterials. This neural network, and others like it, are helping to bring the creation of custom proteins - until recently a highly technical and often unsuccessful pursuit - to mainstream science. On a video call, Juergens opens a cloud-based version of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool he helped to develop, called RFdiffusion. Here we go.β David Juergens, a computational chemist at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, is about to design a protein that, in 3-billion-plus years of tinkering, evolution has never produced. An artificial-intelligence tool called RFdiffusion designed a protein that binds to the parathyroid hormone, shown in pink. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |