Research notes

What the field is writing about its own models.

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2026

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ECMWF's AI forecasting model is open source: now let's make it easy to run.

Open source models are great but sometimes hard to run. This blog post provides tutorials to run ECMWF new AI weather forecast model, AIFS Single 2,0, on any GPU using Hugging Face Jobs or your own hardware.

Jul 2026ClimateEnergyEarth Science

Putting DoctoBERT to Work A Practical Guide

Doctolib Research Lab released a pretrained medical encoder. Here is how to run it, and how to finetune it for the tasks you actually have.

Jul 2026Medicine

Where Does the Signal Live?

A Web Data Recipe for Medical Encoder Pretraining Domain-specific encoders like medical ones are mostly pretrained on small, hand-curated corpora. What if we built one from the heterogeneous web instead?

Jun 2026Medicine

Tropical Quivers for Modern AI: A Guided Tour of a Research Program

A tour of tropical quiver representations and how their combinatorial structure connects to modern AI architectures.

Mar 2026Mathematics

Surface Orders, Cyclic Time, and a Concrete Hilbert–Pólya Framework

A concrete construction toward the Hilbert–Pólya conjecture using surface orders and cyclic-time symmetry as a route to the Riemann Hypothesis.

Mar 2026Mathematics

ThermoGFN-IF for Catalysis

A protein sequence design model fine-tuned with GFlowNets for thermostable and kinetically-aware enzyme engineering.

Mar 2026BiologyChemistryMedicine

Did GPT-5.2 Make a Breakthrough Discovery in Theoretical Physics?

GPT-5.2 conjectured a compact formula for single-minus gluon tree amplitudes previously assumed to be zero for 40 years — a striking example of AI contributing to original theoretical physics.

Feb 2026PhysicsMathematics

A Comprehensive Introduction to AI for Proteins (2026)

A thorough primer on the state of AI for protein science — covering structure prediction, protein language models, generative design, and the full open-source model landscape.

Jan 2026BiologyChemistryMedicine

2025

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SAIR: Accelerating Pharma R&D with AI-Powered Structural Intelligence

How SandboxAQ's SAIR dataset of 1M+ protein–ligand structures is enabling AI-powered drug discovery with unprecedented structural coverage.

Sept 2025ChemistryMedicineBiology

Boltz-2: State of the Art Structure and Binding Affinity Prediction

Boltz-2 outperforms AlphaFold3 on antibody-antigen interfaces and sets a new state of the art for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction.

Jun 2025BiologyChemistryMedicine

Boltzdesign1: Designing De Novo Binders to More Than Just Proteins

BoltzDesign1 extends de novo binder design beyond protein targets to small molecules, RNA, DNA, and metal ions.

Jun 2025BiologyChemistryMedicine

OpenFold3 and The Future of Protein Folding

OpenFold3 is a fully open-source, commercially available AlphaFold3 alternative backed by the OpenFold Consortium — enabling unrestricted biomolecular structure prediction.

Apr 2025BiologyChemistry

IntFold: A New Best Structure Prediction Protocol

IntFold establishes a new state-of-the-art protocol for biomolecular complex structure prediction, setting records across standard benchmarks.

Mar 2025BiologyChemistry

Chai-1r: AlphaFold3 Level Performance, Now Completely Open Source

Chai-1r achieves AlphaFold3-level accuracy on protein-protein and antibody-antigen complexes with fully open weights and no usage restrictions.

Feb 2025BiologyChemistryMedicine

Open-R1: A Fully Open Reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

A fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1's math reasoning training pipeline — data, code, and models — bringing transparent reasoning model training to the community.

Jan 2025Mathematics

Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs): An Intuitive Guide

A clear, intuitive walkthrough of how PINNs embed physical laws directly into neural network training — bridging traditional PDE-based modeling with data-driven deep learning.

Jan 2025PhysicsMathematicsEngineering

AI for Food Allergies

Applying AI to understand and predict food allergies.

Jan 2025MedicineBiology

AI for PDEs

Exploring AI approaches to solving partial differential equations.

Jan 2025PhysicsMathematicsEngineering

Are Mini Proteins the Next Antibodies?

Examining the therapeutic potential of computationally designed miniproteins as a next-generation alternative to traditional antibody drugs.

Jan 2025BiologyMedicineChemistry

Computational De Novo Design of Antibodies and Nanobodies

A practical guide to designing antibody VHHs and scFvs de novo using RFdiffusion and ProteinMPNN, from target epitope to validated sequence.

Jan 2025BiologyMedicineChemistry

Constellation Fusion Challenge

A challenge for advancing fusion energy through AI.

Jan 2025PhysicsEnergyEngineering

Eve Bio: Mapping the Pharmone Drug Interaction

Understanding drug interactions through AI-powered pharmacogenomics.

Jan 2025MedicineBiologyChemistry

GDP: Generative Design for Proteins

Generative models for protein design and engineering.

Jan 2025BiologyChemistry

Making Antibody Embeddings and Predictions

How to create and use antibody embeddings for therapeutic applications.

Jan 2025BiologyMedicineBiotechnology

Predicting Antibody Properties & Developability

ML approaches for predicting key biophysical properties of therapeutic antibody candidates — stability, solubility, and immunogenicity — before wet-lab validation.

Jan 2025BiologyMedicineChemistry

PromoterGPT

AI-powered promoter sequence design and analysis.

Jan 2025BiologyGenomics

SARLO-80: SAR Optic Language Dataset

Introducing a large-scale dataset for SAR and optical remote sensing with language descriptions.

Jan 2025Earth ScienceClimate

The ExpansionRx OpenADMET Blind Challenge

A blind challenge for predicting ADMET properties in drug discovery.

Jan 2025MedicineChemistry

2023

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Predicting the Effects of Mutations on Protein Function with ESM-2

Using ESM-2 protein language model embeddings to score and predict the functional impact of point mutations.

Dec 2023BiologyGenomics

Faster Persistent Homology Alignment and Protein Complex Clustering

Accelerating persistent homology alignment with ESM-2 embeddings and persistence landscapes for protein complex clustering.

Nov 2023BiologyMathematics

Clustering Protein Complexes using Persistent Homology

Combining persistent homology with ESM-2 fine-tuning for protein–protein interaction network prediction and complex clustering.

Nov 2023BiologyChemistry

ESM-2 for Generating and Optimizing Peptide Binders

Generating and optimising peptide binders for target proteins using ESM-2 embeddings and directed evolution.

Nov 2023BiologyMedicine

Persistent Homology Alignment: Replacing Multiple Sequence Alignments

Replacing traditional multiple sequence alignments with ESM-2 embeddings and persistent homology for structure-aware protein comparison.

Nov 2023BiologyMathematics

In Silico Directed Evolution of Protein Sequences with ESM-2

Using ESM-2 and EvoProtGrad to simulate directed evolution in silico, optimising protein sequences for target properties.

Nov 2023BiologyChemistry

QLoRA for ESM-2 and Post Translational Modification Site Prediction

Applying QLoRA fine-tuning to ESM-2 for accurate prediction of post-translational modification sites across protein sequences.

Nov 2023BiologyGenomics

Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of Protein Sequence Embeddings

Measuring the intrinsic dimensionality of ESM-2 protein embeddings to understand the geometric structure of protein sequence space.

Oct 2023BiologyMathematics

Predicting Protein–Protein Interactions Using a Protein Language Model

Using ESM-2 embeddings and linear sum assignment to predict protein–protein binding partners at scale.

Oct 2023BiologyChemistry

ESMBind Ensemble Models

Ensemble methods for ESMBind models to improve binding site prediction accuracy and robustness across protein families.

Sept 2023BiologyGenomics

ESMBind: Low Rank Adaptation of ESM-2 for Protein Binding Site Prediction

Fine-tuning ESM-2 with LoRA adapters to predict protein binding sites with high accuracy and parameter efficiency.

Sept 2023BiologyGenomics