Ewen Callaway An artificial-intelligence tool called RFdiffusion designed a protein that binds to the parathyroid hormone, shown in pink. Credit: Ian C. Haydon/UW Institute for Protein Design “OK. Here we go.” 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...
Over the past two years, machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction. Now, three papers in Science describe a similar revolution in protein design. In the new papers, biologists at the University of Washington School of Medicine show that machine learning can be used to create protein molecules much more accurately and quickly than previously possible. The scientists hope this...
