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Improving life science with programmable experiments. 🧬 🤖 Home of the Protein Engineering Tournament & Open Datasets Initiative.
📣 Evolutionary Scale is supporting the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament!
Teams get sponsored ESM inference through
@evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition.
Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
Teams get sponsored ESM inference through
@evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition.
Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
📣 Evolutionary Scale is supporting the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament!
Teams get sponsored ESM inference through
@evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition.
Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
Teams get sponsored ESM inference through
@evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition.
Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
Thrilled to welcome Amanda Reider Apel to The Align Foundation as Director of Protein Projects! 🚀 A biotech leader who builds high-impact science and thriving teams, she’ll drive protein engineering strategy while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
August 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Thrilled to welcome Amanda Reider Apel to The Align Foundation as Director of Protein Projects! 🚀 A biotech leader who builds high-impact science and thriving teams, she’ll drive protein engineering strategy while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
Why PETase for our tournament? In 2024, the world made about 30 million tonnes of PET plastic, most from fossil fuels.
PETase can degrade PET, but isn’t ready for industrial-scale waste. The challenge: design an improved variant that can change that.
Register by Oct 17 alignbio.org/protein-engi...
PETase can degrade PET, but isn’t ready for industrial-scale waste. The challenge: design an improved variant that can change that.
Register by Oct 17 alignbio.org/protein-engi...
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Why PETase for our tournament? In 2024, the world made about 30 million tonnes of PET plastic, most from fossil fuels.
PETase can degrade PET, but isn’t ready for industrial-scale waste. The challenge: design an improved variant that can change that.
Register by Oct 17 alignbio.org/protein-engi...
PETase can degrade PET, but isn’t ready for industrial-scale waste. The challenge: design an improved variant that can change that.
Register by Oct 17 alignbio.org/protein-engi...
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🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament.
This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️
#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament.
This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️
#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
July 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament.
This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️
#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament.
This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️
#AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
🚨 Align × ATCC are partnering to build the world’s largest public microbial phenotyping dataset.
✅ 1K strains
✅ 1K conditions
✅ 1M reproducible experiments
✅ Open access
This experimental platform will use high-throughput automation, linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes.
✅ 1K strains
✅ 1K conditions
✅ 1M reproducible experiments
✅ Open access
This experimental platform will use high-throughput automation, linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes.
June 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🚨 Align × ATCC are partnering to build the world’s largest public microbial phenotyping dataset.
✅ 1K strains
✅ 1K conditions
✅ 1M reproducible experiments
✅ Open access
This experimental platform will use high-throughput automation, linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes.
✅ 1K strains
✅ 1K conditions
✅ 1M reproducible experiments
✅ Open access
This experimental platform will use high-throughput automation, linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes.
Align's GROQ-seq platform just turned 1 🎂 it now supports 7 protein function projects across 6 labs worldwide. 300k variants measured per run @ <$0.05 each, and it works. Not theory. Real infrastructure. Open to the world. 🔗 1-year technical report → hubs.la/Q03mSrW_0
May 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Align's GROQ-seq platform just turned 1 🎂 it now supports 7 protein function projects across 6 labs worldwide. 300k variants measured per run @ <$0.05 each, and it works. Not theory. Real infrastructure. Open to the world. 🔗 1-year technical report → hubs.la/Q03mSrW_0
🧪 We've already started! In collaboration with our partners at Ginkgo Bioworks 🌱 we've already generated preliminary data! https://buff.ly/410NPJz
December 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM
🧪 We've already started! In collaboration with our partners at Ginkgo Bioworks 🌱 we've already generated preliminary data! https://buff.ly/410NPJz
🚀 News from Align! Today, we're sharing our proposal for building a predictive model of protein expression. Check it out here! ➡️ https://buff.ly/3OqtPZf ⬅️
🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate
🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate
December 3, 2024 at 4:45 PM
🚀 News from Align! Today, we're sharing our proposal for building a predictive model of protein expression. Check it out here! ➡️ https://buff.ly/3OqtPZf ⬅️
🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate
🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate