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‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein

DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool has determined the structures of around 200 million proteins.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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From today, determining the 3D shape of almost any protein known to science will be as simple as typing in a Google search.

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Nature 608, 15-16 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02083-2

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  • Correction 29 July 2022: An earlier version of the standfirst wrongly stated that AlphaFold had determined protein structures from nearly every known species. In fact, it has determined protein structures from nearly every organism with protein sequence data.

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