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Major AlphaFold upgrade offers boost for drug discovery

Latest version of the AI models how proteins interact with other molecules — but DeepMind restricts access to the tool.
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  1. Ewen Callaway

Since the powerhouse artificial intelligence (AI) tool AlphaFold2 was released in 2021, scientists have used the protein-structure-prediction model to map one of our cells’ biggest machines, discover drugs and chart the universe of every known protein.

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Nature 629, 509-510 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01383-z

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