AlphaFold 2 takes an amino acid sequence as input, and outputs a 3D structure which represents the protein that that sequence forms. It would be cool if we could do it in reverse, i.e. the user inputs a 3D model (e.g. a gear, an axle, a wall with a hole in it of a certain shape...) and then the system outputs an amino acid sequence that would form a protein with that structure.
I don’t have a good sense of whether this is a very difficult problem that we are nowhere near solving, or an obvious next step after AlphaFold2.
My current median is that it’s 4 years away, but I’m very uncertain about that.
Will there be an "Inverse AlphaFold" by end of 2025?
[Question] How long till Inverse AlphaFold?
AlphaFold 2 takes an amino acid sequence as input, and outputs a 3D structure which represents the protein that that sequence forms. It would be cool if we could do it in reverse, i.e. the user inputs a 3D model (e.g. a gear, an axle, a wall with a hole in it of a certain shape...) and then the system outputs an amino acid sequence that would form a protein with that structure.
I don’t have a good sense of whether this is a very difficult problem that we are nowhere near solving, or an obvious next step after AlphaFold2.
My current median is that it’s 4 years away, but I’m very uncertain about that.