AlphaFold2 Rapid Drug Discovery Vision Break Boundaries

Nuclera wants to use Google DeepMind to expedite the drug discovery process &Vertex AI’s AlphaFold2 The rapid protein access benchtop system from Nuclera, a biotechnology company based in the US and the UK

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The structural biology and drug development industries have been enthralled by AlphaFold2, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool that DeepMind published in 2021

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Combining the technologies of Google and Nuclera offers drug developers a new integrated approach to enhance protein construct creation and speed up the drug discovery process

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Drug development relies heavily on the accessibility of proteins for lab-based research, which is notoriously expensive and difficult to acquire, placing time and budget constraints on research potential

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AlphaFold2 is an artificial intelligence (AI) model created by DeepMind that predicts the 3D structure of a protein based on its 1D amino acid sequence

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Nuclera’s cloud-based software will use AlphaFold2, which runs on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, as a key component to enhance the quality and obtainability of proteins

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In order to create a scalable and resource-efficient AlphaFold pipeline, Nuclera will leverage the Vertex AI platform Additionally, the company will leverage other Google Cloud services to expose the pipeline via an API and link

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The first goal that AlphaFold2 and Nuclera will accomplish is building a scalable API service that will allow users to access an AlphaFold2 instance running on Google Cloud For more details govindhtech.com

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