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Machine learning has completely changed protein structure prediction over the past two years. A comparable revolution in protein design is now described in three studies published in Science. The University of Washington School of Medicine's biologists demonstrate in the new publications how machine learning can produce protein molecules far more precisely and swiftly than was previously achievable. The researchers anticipate that this development will result in numerous novel vaccinations, drugs, carbon capture techniques, and biomaterials that are sustainable. "Although proteins are essential to all of biology, we know that the total number of proteins in all plants, animals, and microbes represents a tiny fraction of what is actually conceivable. Researchers should be able to resolve enduring problems in medicine, energy, and technology with the help of these new software tools "said senior author and 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winner David Baker, profess...