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How we built our lab in 30 days — Bindwell

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Research from Bindwell on AI, molecular discovery, and experimental verification.

The holy grail of biology and chemistry is a system that can design any molecule you want. How does one create this system? The naive way to build it is to write a test for the property you want and loop over every possible molecule until one passes. However, brute force isn’t very practical, so instead we can train a model to sample molecules from the answer space directly, just like how LLMs are trained to sample text from text space that answers your questions. In order to train such a model, you must scale data and compute. The bitter lesson says methods that leverage computation win…

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