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AlphaFold touted as next big thing for drug discovery — but is it?

Questions remain about whether the AI tool for predicting protein structures can really shake up the pharmaceutical industry.
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  1. Carrie Arnold

After Google Deepmind’s AlphaFold proved that it could predict the 3D shapes of proteins with high accuracy in 2020, chemists became excited about the promise of using the open-source artificial-intelligence (AI) programme to discover drugs more quickly and cheaply. Most drugs work by binding to various sites on proteins, and AlphaFold could predict the structures for proteins that scientists previously knew little about.

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Nature 622, 15-17 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02984-w

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