In November 2020, DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google, struck a blow in the world of biology, winning hands down the international protein conformation prediction competition with its artificial intelligence software, AlphaFold 2. A spectacular success which capped decades of research by dozens of competing teams around the world.
In concrete terms, the power of AlphaFold 2 resulted a few months later in the publication in July 2021 of a register containing the structures of the 20,000 proteins of the human body, then, a year later, by a catalog of 200 million of proteins produced by a multitude of living organisms, from bacteria to humans.
“It really is a revolution.
n, summarizes Alexis Verger, CNRS researcher in the integrative structural biology team in Lille.
It is no longer possible to be competitive in my field without using AlphaFold
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This week, Meta AI, a branch of artificial intelligence…
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