DeepMind’s AI biologist can decipher secrets of the machinery of life

An AI system developed by UK-based company DeepMind has achieved the long-sought-after goal of accurately predicting the shape of proteins from their sequence alone, a key part of understanding how the machinery of life works. In a competition, AlphaFold was able to match two-thirds of the results achieved by humans doing expensive and time-consuming lab experiments.

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