David Baker, Nobel laureate and UW adjunct professor, gave a public lecture discussing the development and applications of ...

In the past few years, huge advances have been made in predicting protein structures using artificial intelligence. But the reverse problem—taking a protein shape and then predicting how to build it ...

Protein rings hallucinated by artificial intelligence-powered software from the Institute for Protein Design. (IPD Image) The Institute for Protein Design helped usher in an era for scientists to ...

Over the past two years, machine learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction. This has been led by experimentally characterized de novo protein designs that have been generated using ...

Artificial intelligence-powered protein design promises to transform fields ranging from drug discovery to industrial materials development. But design only gets you so far – every invention also has ...

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Designing de novo proteins holds immense potential for achieving superior combinations of novel functions and mechanical properties, thereby advancing biological and engineering applications. However, ...

David Baker, director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a pioneer in protein design. His contributions have been recognized with countless ...

image: Deep learning methods have been used to augment existing energy-based physical models in ‘do novo’ or from-scratch computational protein design, resulting in a 10-fold increase in success rates ...