Vibe genes? Natural(ish) language comes to protein, genome design software
Summary
Ars Technica reports on Pinal, a protein-design system that uses natural-language prompts to generate protein backbones and sequences via two-step processes (T2struct and SAProt-T), leveraging large datasets and AlphaFold. It also notes Carbon X by Hugging Face as an open-weight DNA design tool that can run locally. The piece discusses limitations, potential democratization of biology tools, and the ongoing need for lab validation.