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Machine learning-based tools have revolutionized how scientists study protein structure. Here, Nature Chemical Biology speaks to Cecilia Clementi, Bruno Correia and Peilong Lu about progress in developing computational tools for predicting protein structure and properties, how these programs can be used for protein design, and the developments they would like to see in the field.
