Google’s AI Technology Solved 50-Year-Old Grand Challenge in Biology

Article by Erika P.

Google’s AI technology company, DeepMind has made a breakthrough by solving one of the greatest biology challenges: the 3D structure of proteins from its amino-acid sequence.

Called the AlphaFold, the DeepMind program outperformed approximately 100 teams in a biennial protein-structure prediction challenge called Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP). The results were announced on Monday, November 30, at the start of the conference that was held virtually. […]

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