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Event · 2022

AI in scientific research

200 million protein structures

AlphaFold DB published predictions for nearly every catalogued protein known to science. It accelerates research but does not replace experimental validation.

AlphaFold DB turned structure prediction from a specialised compute project into an accessible lookup layer for biologists. The database sharply narrows the hypothesis space, but a predicted structure does not establish function, interaction or therapeutic effect; those conclusions still require experiments.

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Google DeepMindOpen primary source