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Four years after AlphaFold’s AI ‘solved’ protein structure, a fierce competition lives on

In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.
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How AI is Transforming Protein Folding and Solving Global Challenges in Medicine and Sustainability

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the scientific landscape, offering fantastic solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. From combating climate change to transforming ...
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AlphaFold rewired science, and 5 years later it’s still evolving

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of nature, and five years on it has rewired how laboratories plan experiments, ...
STAT

Protein structure competition, of AlphaFold fame, nearing deal to replace lost NIH funding

A three-decade-old competition that has spawned three Nobel laureates is becoming victim to the chaos at the National Institutes of Health. The Community Wide Experiment on the Critical Assessment of ...
News Medical

MassiveFold advances protein structure prediction with efficient parallel processing

With MassiveFold, scientists have unlocked AlphaFold's full potential, making high-confidence protein predictions faster and more accessible, fueling breakthroughs in biology and drug discovery. Brief ...
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Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction

Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI ...