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AlphaFold rewired science, and 5 years later it’s still evolving

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of nature, and five years on it has rewired how laboratories plan experiments, ...
Nature

‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI

Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 3, an updated version of its system for predicting protein structure that is geared towards drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, ...
Science Friday

How Alphafold Has Changed Biology Research, 5 Years On

Proteins are crucial for life. They’re made of amino acids that “fold” into millions of different shapes. And depending on their structure, they do radically different things in our cells. For a long ...
Nature

AlphaFold is five years old — these charts show how it revolutionized science

Since it was unveiled in 2020, Google DeepMind’s game-changing AI tool has helped researchers all over the world to predict the 3D structures of hundreds of millions of proteins. For nearly a decade, ...
AOL

Five years on, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold shows why science may be AI’s killer app

Google DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, a senior researcher at the company, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts ...
Wired

AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving

WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...
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How AlphaFold Became The Most Important Breakthrough In Modern AI

AlphaFold shocked the scientific world by solving protein structures with accuracy once thought impossible. Researchers had spent decades trying to predict how proteins fold, often with limited ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns

Plus: Donald Trump is ordering US scientific agencies to deploy AI This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

Matcha model makes drug candidate screening more than 30 times faster

Ligand Pro, founded by Skoltech professors and a Skoltech Ph.D. student, has presented Matcha, an AI-powered molecular docking model that performs virtual drug screening 30 times faster than the large ...
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Millions of protein complexes added to AlphaFold Database shed light on how proteins interact

Slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum protein complex Q55DI5 (AF-0000000066503175), annotated as a transcription elongation factor. The single chain looked disordered, but modelling the homodimer ...
Scientific American

‘An AlphaFold 4’—scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI

Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released an updated AlphaFold3 geared at drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, announced an even more powerful ...