Articles from The Align Foundation

The Align Foundation, a nonprofit accelerating predictive biology by convening the world's leading minds to generate and optimize the data that powers AI breakthroughs, today announced a partnership with Google DeepMind, the world’s leading AI lab, to work with the global community to chart a new roadmap for data and evaluations that can help drive AI for AMR research. Building on the calls to action within the AI for AMR report released by Google DeepMind and the Fleming Initiative, the organizations will convene global experts in microbiology, medicine, and AI to define and prioritize data generation. Resulting datasets will enable the development of “dream models”–predictive systems capable of catalyzing field-wide changes in how the world understands, predicts, and ultimately addresses AMR.

Plastic waste is projected to triple by 2060, yet less than 10 percent is ever recycled, according to the OECD’s Global Plastics Outlook. The Align Foundation has launched the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament, a global open-science challenge that uses AI and lab testing to improve enzymes capable of breaking down plastic waste. It is one of the first competitions to pair AI-driven enzyme design with large-scale experimental validation.

The Align Foundation, a nonprofit accelerating predictive biology through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven research infrastructure, today announced a collaboration with ATCC, the leading global nonprofit provider of microbial strains, cell lines, in vitro models, and standards, to create the world’s largest public, AI-ready microbial phenotyping dataset.