AI learns nature’s code: Allen Institute, UW and Fred Hutch launch $95M open science initiative

Jack Boylan, left, Allen Institute research associate, and Jesse Gray, AI BioDesign executive director of strategy and platform, at the DNA sequencer inside the initiative’s new lab. It reads millions of designed DNA sequences at once, revealing which ones worked. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Three of Seattle’s top scientific institutions are launching a nearly $95 million research initiative that will generate data and train AI models to design proteins and genes that don’t exist in nature —