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Bio-AI Toolkit

Open tools for peptide engineering and biomaterials design, with the public structural and chemical databases wired in so a design question can be answered in one place.

What is in it

Structure and sequence

  • Interactive 3-D enzyme and protein visualization
  • AlphaFold structure lookup
  • UniProt and PubChem record retrieval
  • BLAST search and general sequence tools

Degradation and proteases

  • Degradation analysis across substrate classes
  • Protease specificity profiling
  • MMP14 cleavage prediction
  • Polymer degradation behaviour

Materials design

  • Hydrogel designer
  • Peptide self-assembly behaviour
  • Peptide library construction

What it is for

Peptide engineering and biomaterials work involves a lot of moving between databases: a structure in one place, a sequence record in another, a cleavage motif somewhere else, and a prediction step that lives in a notebook nobody else can run. The toolkit puts those steps in one browser tab so a design question can be answered in a sitting rather than a week.

It is aimed at early design and technical diligence, the stage where the question is whether a direction is worth pursuing at all, not at replacing validated wet-lab work.

What it is not

Predictions are estimates, and the toolkit is explicit about which outputs are model-derived rather than measured. Nothing here substitutes for experimental validation, and a prediction that disagrees with a bench result is the prediction that is wrong.

Access

Open in the browser, free, no account. Built on public structural and chemical databases.

The Bio-AI Toolkit is built and operated by Steps Ventures. See also SorbentBase and the other tools.