Isomorphic Labs Moves Past AlphaFold - AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #76
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| SATURDAY, JULY 18, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 76 · 20 STORIES |
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Isomorphic Labs Moves Past AlphaFold With a Drug Design Engine
The DeepMind spinout says its Drug Design Engine more than doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy on protein-ligand structure and matches physics-based free energy perturbation on binding affinity at a fraction of the cost. Predicting how a molecule folds was the famous problem; predicting how strongly two of them stick together is the one that gates drug discovery. |
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