How We Built Alphafold 3 To Predict The Structure And Interaction Of All Of Life's Molecules
Google News, Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
Since its launch in 2020, more than 2 million researchers have used Google DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 model for protein predictions in their work on vaccine development, cancer treatments and more - helping solve a problem that researchers had been working on for over 50 years.
After helping scientists predict hundreds of millions of structures, it would've been easy for the team to rest on their laurels.
Instead, they got started on AlphaFold 3. This newer model, which the teams at Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launched in May, builds on our previous models by predicting not just protein folding structures, but predicting the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules, including DNA, RNA and ligands (small molecules that bind to proteins).