Chemistry

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AlphaFold 3 Embraces All Biochemistry: DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 enhances 3D biomolecular modeling.
Chemistry

AlphaFold 3 Embraces All Biochemistry: DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 enhances 3D biomolecular modeling.

The latest update of DeepMind’s AlphaFold model is designed to find the structures of not just proteins but all biologically active molecules as well as interactions between them.
Robot Chemist: RoboChem, a system that outshines human chemists in chemical synthesis efficiency
Chemistry

Robot Chemist: RoboChem, a system that outshines human chemists in chemical synthesis efficiency

A robot outperformed human chemists at synthesizing chemicals. Researchers at University of Amsterdam built RoboChem, an integrated robotic system that learned to design light-activated chemical reactions while achieving optimal yields and throughput.
Dozens of toxic barrels on a road and a witch behind
Chemistry

Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI

A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?
Different Nvidia cloud-computing services
Chemistry

Chipmaker Boosts AI as a Service: Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models

Nvidia, known for chips designed to process AI systems, is providing access to large language models. Nvidia announced early access to NeMo LLM and BioNeMo, cloud-computing services that enable developers to generate text and biological sequences respectively.
Overall architecture of GEM.
Chemistry

What a Molecule’s Structure Reveals: Baidu Creates AI to Classify Molecular Properties

The authors trained a modified GNN on a dataset of 18 million molecules to find molecular properties.
Animated graphs and maps show global hiring trends for AI jobs in the pharma industry.
Chemistry

AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever

Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
Animated flowcharts show how the ProtCNN AI model classifies proteins.
Chemistry

Protein Families Deciphered: Machine Learning Categorizes Proteins Based on Their Functions

Convolutional neural networks separate proteins into functional families without considering their shapes.
Bees pollinating flowers
Chemistry

Protection for Pollinators: AI Could Help Create Pesticides That Don’t Kill Bees

A machine learning method could help chemists formulate pesticides that target harmful insects but leave bees alone. Researchers at Oregon State University developed models that classify whether or not a chemical is fatally toxic to bees.
Animation showing AlphaFold working
Chemistry

Biomedical Treasure Chest: DeepMind open sources AlphaFold and protein databases.

DeepMind opened access to AlphaFold, a model that finds the shapes of proteins, and to its output so far — a potential cornucopia for biomedical research. The research lab, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet, made AlphaFold freely available.
Protein structures
Chemistry

What AI Knows About Proteins: NLP systems can be used to code amino acids.

Transformer models trained on sequences of amino acids that form proteins have had success classifying and generating viable sequences. New research shows that they also capture information about protein structure.
Data related to DeepCE, a system designed to predict how particular drugs will influence the amounts of RNA
Chemistry

Old Drugs for New Ailments: AI searches for Covid-19 treatments among existing drugs.

Many medical drugs work by modulating the body’s production of specific proteins. Recent research aimed to predict this activity, enabling researchers to identify drugs that might counteract the effects of Covid-19.
Information related to a deep learning system developed by Sandia National Laboratories
Chemistry

Materials Science Gets a Boost: How AI can speed up materials science.

Neural nets could speed up development of new materials.What’s new: A deep learning system from Sandia National Laboratories dramatically accelerated simulations that help scientists understand how changes to the design or fabrication of a material change its properties.
Covid Moonshot animation
Chemistry

Crowdsourcing Against Coronavirus: A global effort using AI to find Covid-19 medicine.

Covid Moonshot, an open-source project to vet potential medicines using machine learning, is closing in on compounds that might help curb Covid-19. Four new antiviral drugs identified by the project are ready to advance to animal trials.
Forbidden sign appearing over two cows
Chemistry

Got Model?: How NotMilk used AI to create its dairy-free milk recipe

Who needs cows when you can make milk from scratch? NotMilk, a dairy-free milk substitute that was designed with help from a deep learning model, made its debut in American grocery stores.
Information and components of a battery
Chemistry

Getting a Charge From AI: How battery developers are using AI

Machine learning is helping to design energy cells that charge faster and last longer. Battery developers are using ML algorithms to devise new chemicals, components, and charging techniques faster than traditional techniques allow.
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