OpenFold & Open Molecular Software Foundation

News from the sister adjacent where Geometric Deep Learning is the main workhorse: OpenFold is a new, non-profit AI research consortium to foster free and open-source tools for biology and drug discovery. OpenFold is founded by the Lab of Mohammed AlQuraishi at Columbia University, Arzeda, Cyrus Biotechnology, Prescient Design, and Outspace Bio.

The first big release of OpenFold is OpenFold, (citing the authors) “a trainable reproduction” of AlphaFold 2 in PyTorch with the aim to open all the training data and model weights.

The OpenFold consortium is designed to be “OpenAI in drug discovery”, let’s hope they will be a bit more open than OpenAI itself about their models and code 😉