by Paige Donner
TL;DR
#DeSci DAOs are blossoming just as AI and ML open source databases and systems are unleashing the ability for scientists and engineers to conduct innovative research at breakneck speeds.
Vocab:
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Proteomics - the study of proteins
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DeepMind - Google’s AI Division, published the entire AlphaFold2 database as open source in 2022
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AlphaFold - ‘can accurately predict 3D models of protein structures (over 200M of them) and is accelerating research in nearly every field of biology’ LINK
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ProteinMPNN - developed by University of Washington, AI based tool that gives scientists the ability to reverse engineer protein structures GitHub
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DeSci - decentralized science
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Science DAOs - science focused decentralized autonomous organizations, the majority of which are now bio-science oriented (but don’t have to be)
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Blockchain - immutable, distributed ledger technology
TL;DR
#DeSci DAOs are blossoming just as AI and ML open source databases and systems are unleashing the ability for scientists and engineers to conduct innovative research at breakneck speeds.
At this time last year there existed 4 science-focused DAOs. VitaDAO, LabDAO and PsyDAO were all spun out of Molecule.io. They are all bio-science focused DAOs and are, arguably, the first to enshrine the concepts of #DeSci, or decentralized science, into a DAO structure.
And then there was us, FrontierDAO, established in September 2021. We came along with a science focus, too. Though our science focus is not on bio-sciences but rather on fusion energy innovation, space exploration technologies and climate solutions with an emphasis on innovation, Test & Evaluation and, ultimately, commercialization.
This article focuses mainly on how major breakthroughs in AI, and their release as open source, are fueling this massive upswing in science DAOs, particularly bio-science DAOs, and #DeSci. At last count - Sept. 19, 2022 - there were 25 bio-science focused DAOs active in the #DeSci movement. While there are only 3 DAOs focused on space exploration, 1 on climate and environment and 1 on fusion energy.
So what is it that these bio-science DAOs are seeing that the rest of us are not?
Well, in a word, AI....
It is this: Now that AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning) techniques can be readily used in research and laboratories, we are sitting at the dawn of massive breakthroughs in scientific and engineering research. Moreover, these breakthroughs will be coming at breakneck speeds.
How so?
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