We’re presenting AlphaProteo: an AI system for designing novel proteins that bind more successfully to target molecules. 🧬 It could help scientists better understand how biological systems function, save time in research, advance drug design and more. 🧵 dpmd.ai/3XuMqbX

DeepMind protein design model released. Still reading but experimental results look impressive.

There are over 500 amino acids. Also known as non-standard, non-canonical, or even unnatural, these amino acids have diverse functions in Nature and appear to be imbuing therapies with superior physiochemical properties. Read more in my newest essay. tinyurl.com/3apurs2r

We’re excited to introduce @ChaiDiscovery and release Chai-1, a foundation model for molecular structure prediction that performs at the state-of-the-art across a variety of drug discovery tasks We're releasing inference code, weights & a web interface: chaidiscovery.com/blog/introduct…

Today we’re launching Chai Discovery, led by Joshua Meier & his polymathic world class cofounders. We’re also open sourcing Chai-1: a state of the art frontier model for biomolecular interactions. DIMENSION has co-led the founding round alongside Thrive & OpenAI

Congrats to Joshua Meier and team for the launch and what looks like a fantastic model. I look forward to digging in!!

Welcome to everyone joining us in 24/25!🎉🎉🎉 📍Stay tuned to this page for talks, workshops, journal clubs, and many other exciting events! 🥳 We look forward to meeting you at Fresher’s Fair and in the upcoming academic year!

Confused by the number of open-sourced AlphaFold3 alternatives recently put out on the market? So was I - so I wrote a little thing about it! Link below 👇

Summary of AF3 reproductions: harrisbio.substack.com/p/the-race-to-… There are a few 'AI for Science' areas that are becoming like LLMs: - Convergence towards methodologies - Big tech, startups, academia (?) pushing each other with each release - Social media traction also very important?

Honoured to see my article on AF3 models featured in R&D World alongside GPT-4o1 yesterday...they even seem to think I have a PhD already 🤣 rdworldonline.com/this-week-in-a… [insert science policy imposter syndrome here]

Michael Bronstein, Oxford prof + one of the world’s leading experts in protein design, has been given £150mn to set up an AI for biodesign lab in Austria The US equivalent (IPD) has spun out billions of $ Why hasn’t the U.K. backed Michael (or someone like him) to do the same?