Biology

4 entries between December 2018 and August 2026.

Every entry

  1. Genome language models design working bacteriophages

    A paper published in Science on 6 August 2026 described the generative design of novel bacteriophage genomes using genome language models. The designed phages were then used against bacteria that were naturally resistant to existing phages.

  2. DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs unveil AlphaFold 3

    Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs announced AlphaFold 3 on 8 May 2024, extending the protein-structure predictor to complexes of proteins with DNA, RNA, small-molecule ligands, and ions. The Nature paper reported at least a 50% accuracy gain over prior methods.

  3. AlphaFold database expands to over 200 million structures

    DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database on 28 July 2022, from roughly 1 million predicted protein structures to more than 200 million, covering nearly every sequence catalogued in UniProt.

  4. AlphaFold wins the CASP13 protein-structure contest

    DeepMind’s AlphaFold placed first among entrants at the thirteenth Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction in December 2018, a blind test of methods for predicting how a protein folds. It did best on the hardest category, targets with no similar known structure.