Chinese researchers launch natural language protein design tool

A Chinese research collaboration developed a tool that uses natural language prompts to design proteins with specified functions, though success rates may be low. Hugging Face also announced hosting a similar tool at the DNA level. This lowers the barrier to protein design but still requires lab validation.

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