IT Home April 23 news, according to Huawei's official website, based on the all-scenario AI framework Ascend MindSpore developed protein structure prediction model recently in the global continuous protein structure prediction competition CAMEO (Continous Automated Model EvaluatiOn) won the world's first result.
In December 2020, Science magazine selected ten major scientific breakthroughs of the year, and AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence for protein structure prediction, is one of the most important.
According to reports, in November 2021, Huawei's MindSpore team, Changping Laboratory, Peking University Biomedical Frontier Innovation Center (BIOPIC), school of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Professor Gao Yiqin's research group of Shenzhen Bay Laboratory jointly launched a protein structure prediction inference tool based on alphaFold2 algorithm, and in February 2022, the whole process of training was opened, and the efficiency was increased by 2-3 times year-on-year.
IT Home learned that Huawei said that after adopting the ascend AI basic software and hardware platform, under the mixed accuracy, the single-step iteration time was shortened from 20 seconds to 12 seconds, and the performance was improved by more than 60%. Relying on The MindSpore memory multiplexing capability, the training sequence length was increased from 384 to 512.
▲ The results of the latest monthly chart competition on April 21 | Image source: Huawei
On the basis of training accuracy close to AlphaFold2, Ascend MindSpore continues to improve in the direction of algorithm, scale and software and hardware support, and the results of the protein structure prediction model released this time continue to set new industry records and win the first place in the CAMEO competition. CAMEO is considered one of the most important competitions in the field of protein structure prediction, and the rules of the competition are that each participant is required to predict the structure of 20 newly cracked proteins by structural biologists around the world every week, and their scores and rankings are updated online every week.