Google DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on protein folding.

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https://rootsofprogress.org/alphafold-protein-folding-explainer

 

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Today Google DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.

 

I'm just linking this as a bit of nice news, I guess?

 

The article is also nice because it actually gives a nice overview of what protein folding aims to achieve, what some common problems are, some nice pictures, etc...

 

This seems like good news. At least a step forward.

 

EDIT: Though it's not a solved problem yet: http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2020/12/02/no-deepmind-has-not-solved-protein-folding/

 

EDIT2: Though apparently this rebuttal doesn't hold much ground: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25306954

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GOOD SHIT GOOGLE.