Ai2 supports University of Washington protein design research on Prompteina

Ai2 says it is supporting AI research for protein design and drug discovery with the University of Washington's Protein Design group.

Ai2's post links to Prompteina, a tool that designs all-atom proteins from natural-language prompts.

According to a background post cited in the report, Prompteina reports higher predicted binding confidence than baselines and the first experimentally validated de novo binders for GM2A. The report does not give the size of Ai2's support, its funding terms, or the validation data.