AI Can Compute Protein Structures in 10 Minutes

Scientists have waited months for access to high-accuracy protein structure prediction since DeepMind presented remarkable progress in this area at the 2020 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, or CASP14, conference. The wait is now over. Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have largely recreated the performance achieved by DeepMind on this important task. These results will be published by the journal Science. Unlike DeepMind, the UW Medicine team has already made their method, dubbed RoseTTAFold, freely available.