Artificial intelligence predicts the structure of almost every protein ever discovered.
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- 04 Aug 2022
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A new era of biological research has opened with artificial intelligence (AI) predicting the 3D shape of nearly every protein known to science.
A new era of biological research has opened with artificial intelligence (AI) predicting the 3D shape of nearly every protein known to science — just a year after its first data were released. Thanks to AlphaFold, an AI tool developed by Google-owned AI company DeepMind, more than 200 million protein structures are now shared online in a freely accessible and searchable database called AlphaFold DB.
This achievement paved the way for countless scientific discoveries in proteins, the building blocks of life. The researchers were giddy with excitement.
“Determining the 3D structure of a protein that once took months or years now takes seconds,” cardiologist Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Translational Institute said in a statement about the data release. Read More...
