Part of University of Washington
A University of Washington institute creating proteins from scratch, with computational design methods for therapeutics, vaccines, and nanomaterials.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington
Released June 4, 2026
Diffusion-based backbone generation and sequence design method for programmable asymmetric transmembrane beta-barrel nanopores.
All-atom protein design diffusion model conditioned on ligands, nucleic acids, and other non-protein atoms, supporting enzyme and DNA binder design.
Atom-level diffusion model for de novo enzyme design that scaffolds arbitrary active-site geometries without specifying catalytic residue positions.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Rice University
Released October 4, 2025
Nucleic acid inverse-folding network that designs RNA sequences for a target 3D backbone and predicts protein-DNA binding specificity.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / University of Cambridge / University of Oxford / UT Southwestern Medical Center / Technical University of Denmark / Microsoft / NVIDIA / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released August 14, 2025
All-atom structure prediction for arbitrary biomolecular complexes of proteins, nucleic acids, and ligands, with code and weights under a BSD license.
Protein sequence design model that represents small molecules, nucleotides, and metals at atomic resolution, enabling ligand-aware enzyme design.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Tufts University / University College Cork / MIT / Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / Forschungszentrum Jülich
Released November 18, 2024
Macrocyclic peptide binder design against protein targets, cyclizing a diffusion backbone generator's positional encoding so it closes rings.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Yale University / Northeastern University / Broad Institute / MIT / Google DeepMind
Released November 10, 2024
De novo enzyme design conditioned on the reaction to be catalysed: substrate and product SMILES in, catalytic pocket, enzyme, and docked complex out.
McGill University / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Mila / Université de Montréal / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Institute for Protein Design / Microsoft Research / Google DeepMind
Released October 1, 2024
Enzyme catalytic pocket design conditioned on a reaction: substrate and product in, pocket backbone, sequence, and EC class out.
University of Washington / Institute for Protein Design / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center / Yale University / MIT
Released July 9, 2024
Structure-based mutational effect prediction from local atomic environments, scoring how substitutions change protein stability and binding affinity.
De novo protein design diffusion model that generates backbone structures conditioned on binding targets, symmetry constraints, and functional motifs.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Seoul National University / UT Southwestern Medical Center / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released May 25, 2023
Protein structure prediction for monomers and complexes in one three-track network, scaling past 1000 residues without triangle attention.
AlphaFold fine-tuned on peptide-MHC and protein-peptide binding data for specificity prediction across MHC class I/II, PDZ, and SH3 domains.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / MIT / University College Cork
Released February 26, 2023
Cyclic peptide structure prediction and de novo macrocycle design, by wrapping a frozen structure predictor's positional encoding into a ring.
Message passing neural network for fixed-backbone protein sequence design. Achieves 52.4% native sequence recovery, far surpassing Rosetta's 32.9%.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Seoul National University / UC Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released September 10, 2022
Protein-nucleic acid complex structure prediction from sequence, folding protein, DNA and RNA chains in one network with confidence estimates.
Full-atom protein model accuracy estimation, regressing per-atom lDDT with an SE(3)-transformer over a heavy-atom graph of the modeled structure.
Structure accuracy estimation over atom graphs, scoring macrocyclic peptide and protein-DNA models that residue-level predictors cannot represent.
Baker Lab / Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Harvard University / UT Southwestern Medical Center / University of Cambridge / Stanford University / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / North-West University / University of the Free State / University of Graz / Medical University of Graz / University of Victoria / University of British Columbia / UC Berkeley / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released July 15, 2021
Protein structure and complex prediction from sequence, in a three-track network that reasons over alignments, distances, and 3D coordinates at once.
Institute for Protein Design / University of Washington / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Released July 17, 2020
Protein model accuracy estimation predicting per-residue lDDT plus signed residue-pair distance errors that become Rosetta refinement restraints.