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The Align Foundation

@alignbio.bsky.social
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Improving life science with programmable experiments. 🧬 🤖 Home of the Protein Engineering Tournament & Open Datasets Initiative.

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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
📣 Evolutionary Scale is supporting the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament! Teams get sponsored ESM inference through @evolutionaryscale.bsky.social's API (Forge), bringing frontier protein AI models into the competition. Level playing field, real experiments, open results. Register now 👇
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Thrilled to welcome Amanda Reider Apel to The Align Foundation as Director of Protein Projects! 🚀 A biotech leader who builds high-impact science and thriving teams, she’ll drive protein engineering strategy while fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Why PETase for our tournament? In 2024, the world made about 30 million tonnes of PET plastic, most from fossil fuels. PETase can degrade PET, but isn’t ready for industrial-scale waste. The challenge: design an improved variant that can change that. Register by Oct 17 alignbio.org/protein-engi...
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering #OpenScience
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 Align × ATCC are partnering to build the world’s largest public microbial phenotyping dataset. ✅ 1K strains ✅ 1K conditions ✅ 1M reproducible experiments ✅ Open access This experimental platform will use high-throughput automation, linked to ATCC’s authenticated genomes.
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Align's GROQ-seq platform just turned 1 🎂 it now supports 7 protein function projects across 6 labs worldwide. 300k variants measured per run @ <$0.05 each, and it works. Not theory. Real infrastructure. Open to the world. 🔗 1-year technical report → hubs.la/Q03mSrW_0
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🧪 We've already started! In collaboration with our partners at Ginkgo Bioworks 🌱 we've already generated preliminary data! buff.ly/410NPJz
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The Align Foundation @alignbio.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚀 News from Align! Today, we're sharing our proposal for building a predictive model of protein expression. Check it out here! ➡️ buff.ly/3OqtPZf ⬅️ 🌍✨#ProteinExpression #Bioengineering #Collaboration #MachineLearning #DataScience #AlignToInnovate
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