🧪 Best AI tools for Protein structure & design (2026)

Structure prediction, protein language models and generative protein/binder design.

32 tools · 25 open source · each entry links to its website, code and paper.

Dated by release date, else first public paper, preprint or release date; undated tools listed after, A–Z.

CHORUS

Sequence-only pLM ensemble predicting membrane-protein interaction interfaces; proteome-scale atlas covering 80k+ reviewed TM proteins.

Protein structure & designFree (atlas + open code)#membrane#ppi-interface

Prompteina

Text-to-structure all-atom protein design: generate monomers and binders from natural-language prompts.

Protein structure & designOpen source#text-conditioned#binder-design

Google DeepMind diffusion pipeline for de novo enzyme design via catalytic motif scaffolding.

Protein structure & designOpen source (non-commercial)#enzyme-design#diffusion

BoltzGen

Open generative model for designing protein and peptide binders against diverse targets.

Protein structure & designOpen source#binder-design#generative

La-Proteina

NVIDIA latent flow model for joint atomistic protein sequence-structure generation.

Protein structure & designOpen source#design#flow-matching

RFdiffusion2

Atom-level enzyme active-site scaffolding with diffusion, no sequence-position constraints.

Protein structure & designOpen source#enzyme-design#diffusion

Proteina

NVIDIA flow-matching model for large-scale protein backbone generation.

Protein structure & designOpen source (non-commercial)#design#flow-matching

Protenix

Trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3 by ByteDance.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure

BioEmu

Generative model emulating protein equilibrium structural ensembles.

Protein structure & designOpen source#dynamics#ensembles

Boltz

Open biomolecular interaction models (Boltz-1, Boltz-2) for complex structure and binding-affinity prediction.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure#affinity

BindCraft

One-shot de novo binder design pipeline with AF2 hallucination.

Protein structure & designOpen source#binder#design

Chai-1

Multimodal foundation model for molecular structure prediction.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure#complexes

Multimodal generative protein language model over sequence, structure and function (ESM3; also ESM C embeddings).

Protein structure & designFreemium#plm#generative

Structure prediction of proteins, nucleic acids, ligands and their complexes; free web server and code, weights on request for non-commercial use.

Protein structure & designFree (research)#structure#complexes

RFantibody

Structure-based de novo antibody and nanobody design with fine-tuned RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN and RF2.

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#design

AbLang-2

Paired-chain antibody language model trained to reduce germline bias.

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#language-model

Generalized biomolecular modeling for proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure

Deep learning structure prediction for antibodies, nanobodies and TCRs (ABodyBuilder2 etc.).

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#tcr

IgFold

Fast antibody structure prediction using AntiBERTy embeddings and graph networks.

Protein structure & designOpen source (non-commercial)#antibody#structure

RFdiffusion

Diffusion model for de novo protein backbone design and binder design.

Protein structure & designOpen source#design#diffusion

Protein language models and single-sequence structure prediction (Meta repo archived; models still widely used via Hugging Face).

Protein structure & designOpen source#plm#structure

ProGen2

Protein language models (up to 6.4B) for sequence generation and fitness prediction.

Protein structure & designOpen source#language-model#generative

ProteinMPNN

Deep-learning inverse folding: designs sequences for given backbones.

Protein structure & designOpen source#inverse-folding#design

Foldseek

Fast and accurate protein structure search.

Protein structure & designOpen source#search#structure

AbLang

Antibody language model for heavy/light chains, used for residue restoration and embeddings.

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#language-model

AntiBERTy

BERT-style antibody language model trained on 558M OAS sequences.

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#language-model

OpenFold

Trainable open-source reproduction of AlphaFold2 in PyTorch.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure#pytorch

BioPhi

Antibody humanization (Sapiens) and humanness evaluation (OASis) platform.

Protein structure & designOpen source#antibody#humanization

ColabFold

Fast, accessible protein folding with MMseqs2 + AlphaFold in Colab.

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure#colab

AlphaFold 2

DeepMind's open-source protein structure prediction model (monomer and multimer).

Protein structure & designOpen source#structure#msa

200M+ predicted protein structures from DeepMind and EMBL-EBI.

Protein structure & designOpen source#database#structure

No-code web platform running 100+ protein and molecular ML models.

Protein structure & designFreemium#no-code#platform