What happened in the Nipah Protein Design Competition so far? Plus: Prediction markets for protein design TLDR: • We hosted our third installment of the Protein Design Competition on @proteinbase, this time challenging participants to design a binder against the Nipah virus glycoprotein. • The response was incredible: Over 10’000 designs were submitted, over 5 times the number of designs in the past 2 competitions combined, with more than 650 total participants. • We’re currently testing all 1’200 selected designs, but, in the meantime, we’re taking a brief detour into what happened during the competition. Which model was the fan favorite? What did the top-ranking designs look like? And how can we select a better ranking metric for future competitions? • Plus, we opened a prediction market on Manifold for this competition so you can bet on hit rates, best performing models, and more