ESMFold2 AI generates open-source atlas of over one billion predicted protein structures
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Summary
A new open-source AI tool called ESMFold2 has generated the ESM Atlas, a database containing over one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences. This vastly expands the known protein universe, building on the foundation laid by DeepMind's AlphaFold. The tool was developed by researchers at Meta (formerly Facebook) and is freely available to the scientific community, potentially accelerating research in biology, medicine, and drug discovery.
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A newly released artificial-intelligence tool has generated an atlas of more than one billion predicted protein structures and billions more protein sequences.
The database, known as the ESM Atlas, was un
The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe
