This seems like another major advance in the ability of AI, doing protein folding, to make better drugs. We will see…but on its promo face, it looks very promising. This firm, Isomorphic Labs has a lot of the original DeepMind AlphaFold folks. When AlphaFold quickly solved a lot of protein folding, the world has been predicting a lot of great new medicines. But solving the protein folding part of the problem is only the start. Moving from solving the protein folding to delivering a good useful medicine is a lot of work, resources, and risk. As far as I can tell, Isomorphic Lab’s Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine is another step forward to helping reach the final outcome (i.e., a good useful drug) faster and cheaper. You can read their related research paper. Seems very interesting to me (although I’m definitely not an expert in the protein folding/drug making space). It seems less like hype and more like good AI-enabled scientific discovery. Time will tell. submitted by /u/rogeragrimes
Originally posted by u/rogeragrimes on r/ArtificialInteligence