AI used to solve protein folding structures

From guardian
Thus could hopefully input to research and reduce timescales across the board

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...racks-50-year-old-problem-of-biology-research

 

Was reading this too, it looks like good news for hugely complex areas of research. I wonder if DeepMind fancies having a go at some of the thorny questions in ME research!

 

My eldest daughter's dissertation for her degree involved helping PhD students engineer a protein probe to study effects of reperfusion damage on mitochondria ( linked to atherosclerosis research).

It was difficult frustrating work and a lot of lab time as the many protocols they used didn't seem to work.

Brainstorming got enough results for her dissertation , but the impact of this research for future research is truly immense.

 

here is an update to DeepMind and AlphFold…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41...ail&utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-9d0b1cbbb8-45313962