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AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins

Microbial molecules from soil, seawater and human bodies are among the planet’s least understood.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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When London-based artificial-intelligence (AI) company DeepMind unveiled predicted structures for some 220 million proteins earlier this year, the trove covered nearly every protein from known organisms in DNA databases. Now, another tech giant is filling in the ‘dark matter’ of the protein universe.

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Nature 611, 211-212 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03539-1

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