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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

   Lin, Akin, Rao et al. · Science · 2023

   A protein language model scaled to 15 billion parameters is used to predict atomic-level structures quickly, and to build an atlas of over 617 million metagenomic protein structures.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say a large language model can infer full atomic-level protein structure directly from a protein's amino-acid sequence alone.“We demonstrate direct inference of full atomic-level protein structure from primary sequence using a large language model.”

2. Immunology and Microbiology › Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities

   AMPGen: an evolutionary information-reserved and diffusion-driven generative model for de novo design of antimicrobial peptides

   Jin, Zeng, Xiong et al. · Communications Biology · 2025

   The authors present AMPGen, a diffusion-based AI pipeline that designs new antimicrobial peptides, and report lab tests in which most synthesised candidates showed antibacterial activity.

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   1. UncheckedOf 40 AI-designed antimicrobial peptide candidates, 38 were synthesised, and 81.58% of those showed antibacterial activity in testing.“In this study, of the 40 de novo designed AMP candidates for verification, 38 were successfully synthesized, and among them, 81.58% demonstrated antibacterial activity.”
   2. UncheckedIn AMPGen, giving the generator an AMP-specific multiple sequence alignment as input increases the success rate of the antimicrobial peptides it generates.“The AMP-MSA conditional input raises the success rate of generated AMPs, which are subsequently filtered based on physicochemical properties and assessed by an XGBoost-based discriminator.”

3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

   Lin, Akin, Rao et al. · Science · 2023

   The authors trained protein language models up to 15B parameters to predict atomic-level structure much faster, and used them to build an atlas of more than 617 million metagenomic protein structures.

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   1. UncheckedAs protein language models are made larger, they learn information that lets them predict a protein's 3D structure down to individual atoms.“As the language models are scaled they learn information that enables prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein at the resolution of individual atoms.”
   2. UncheckedThe ESM Metagenomic Atlas contains over 225 million high-confidence predicted protein structures, including millions that differ from experimentally determined ones.“The atlas reveals more than 225 million high confidence predictions, including millions whose structures are novel in comparison with experimentally determined structures, giving an unprecedented view into the vast breadth and diversity of the structures of some of the least understood proteins on…”
   3. UncheckedA protein language model predicts atomic-level structures up to 60 times faster than state-of-the-art methods, the paper says, while keeping resolution and accuracy.“This results in prediction that is up to 60x faster than state-of-the-art while maintaining resolution and accuracy.”