In Greek mythology, the sea god Proteus
possessed the power to shift forms and foresee
the future, adapting to any situation and guiding
the lost.
Similarly, in the science of life, proteins—the
ultimate molecular machines—have their functions encoded in a unique "language of life": their
amino acid sequences.
However, turning an ideal protein function into reality faces a massive bottleneck: the design process is too slow, too expensive, and too unpredictable.
We are trapped in a vast chasm between "functional vision" and "sequence implementation." It's as if we know we need a key, yet we must attempt to forge millions of them just to find one that barely works.
We present PROTEUS, a platform that fuses the ESM2 protein language model with contrastive learning to enable rapid, precise, and programmable design of functional proteins—delivering next-generation AI solutions for synthetic biology.
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