{"id":192555,"date":"2024-07-08T18:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T23:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ex-meta-scientists-debut-gigantic-ai-protein-design-model"},"modified":"2024-07-08T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T23:26:49","slug":"ex-meta-scientists-debut-gigantic-ai-protein-design-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/ex-meta-scientists-debut-gigantic-ai-protein-design-model","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Meta scientists debut gigantic AI protein design model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ex-meta-scientists-debut-gigantic-ai-protein-design-model3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to build tools that can make biology programmable,\u201d says Alex Rives, the company\u2019s chief scientist, who was part of Meta\u2019s efforts to apply AI to biological data.<\/p>\n<p>EvolutionaryScale\u2019s AI tool, called ESM3, is what\u2019s known as a protein language model. It was trained on more than 2.7 billion protein sequences and structures, as well as information about these proteins\u2019 functions. The model can be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02227-y\">create proteins<\/a> to specifications provided by users, akin to the text spit out by chatbots such as ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be one of the AI models in biology that everybody\u2019s paying attention to,\u201d says Anthony Gitter, a computational biologist at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe want to build tools that can make biology programmable,\u201d says Alex Rives, the company\u2019s chief scientist, who was part of Meta\u2019s efforts to apply AI to biological data. EvolutionaryScale\u2019s AI tool, called ESM3, is what\u2019s known as a protein language model. It was trained on more than 2.7 billion protein sequences and structures, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}