Microsoft releases EvoDiff, a new artificial intelligence for protein creation

Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence framework, EvoDiff, which can generate high-quality proteins without the need for specific structural information, making it less complex and more cost-effective. The model, which contains 640 million parameters, has been trained on data from various species and functional classes of proteins. Unlike other protein-generating methods, the EvoDiff model operates in the sequence space, allowing it to design both typical and disordered proteins. However, it has not yet been peer-reviewed, and further work is needed to determine its commercial viability.