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Biohub builds AI atlas of proteins
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's nonprofit pushes deeper into AI biology.
TL;DR
- Biohub has released an AI system that models protein biology.
- The system can significantly reduce the time needed for protein research.
- It includes tools for protein structure prediction, a protein language model, and ESM Atlas (a map of 6.8 billion proteins and 1.1 billion predicted structures).
- Biohub suggests this AI can enable computational design and testing of protein interfaces.
- Other organizations like Isomorphic Labs, OpenAI, and Anthropic are also using AI for biological research and drug discovery.
- Biohub is investing further in AI simulations of the human body.
- The current work is still preliminary for drug design and therapeutic use, requiring more safety testing.