Biomedical ML
News & features
This talk discusses how deep learning is enabling us to generate novel and useful biomolecules, allowing researchers and practitioners to better understand biology.
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft open sources EvoDiff, a novel protein-generating AI
This week, Microsoft introduced a general-purpose framework, EvoDiff, that the company claims can generate “high-fidelity,” “diverse” proteins given a protein sequence. Different from other protein-generating frameworks, EvoDiff doesn’t require any structural information about the target protein, cutting out what’s typically…
Research Focus: Week of May 8, 2023
In this issue: Microsoft researchers win four more awards; AutoRXN automates calculations of molecular systems; LLM accelerator losslessly improves the efficiency of autoregressive decoding; a frequency domain approach to predict power system transients.
In the news | Volastra
Volastra Therapeutics Partners with Microsoft to Advance Metastatic Cancer Research
Collaboration will integrate Microsoft Azure AI and Volastra’s insights into tumor biology to develop machine learning tools to detect drivers of tumor growth and predict metastatic risk.
Awards | The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Lorin Crawford awarded Packard Fellowship
Lorin Crawford, Senior Researcher at the Microsoft Research New England Lab, was one of 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers, who will each receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. Packard Fellows are at the cutting edge of…