Anthropic and Adaptyv launch protein design contest with $1M in Claude credits
Flomerboy · x · 2026-09-22
- Anthropic and Adaptyv are co-hosting a protein design competition, offering up to $1M in Claude credits plus funding to experimentally validate 5,000 community-submitted designs. All results will be published openly and participants keep ownership of their designs.
- Five frontier problems were chosen: species cross-reactivity, pH-sensitivity, peptide-MHC specificity, and hard targets like GPCRs.
- Modal provides compute credits and Twist Bioscience supplies DNA; applications are now open.
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