Our AlphaFold pilot workshop, which took place in October 2024 in Douala, Cameroon, trained 20 scientists in AlphaFold structure prediction and experimental validation workflows4,5,6. The success of ...
Nearly two years after Google DeepMind released an updated AlphaFold3 geared at drug discovery, its biopharmaceuticals spin-off, Isomorphic Labs, announced an even more powerful ...
WIRED spoke with DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli about the recent past—and promising future—of the Nobel Prize-winning research project that changed biology and chemistry forever. To understand what the ...
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AlphaFold shocked the scientific world by solving protein structures with accuracy once thought impossible. Researchers had spent decades trying to predict how proteins fold, often with limited ...
“I’ll be shocked if we don’t see more and more LLM impact on science,” says John Jumper. In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on ...
Proteins are crucial for life. They’re made of amino acids that “fold” into millions of different shapes. And depending on their structure, they do radically different things in our cells. For a long ...
AlphaFold’s impact on the research world has been astronomical. At ELRIG’s Drug Discovery 2025 (21–22 October; Liverpool, UK), we had the opportunity to speak with Miles Congreve (left), Chief ...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the field of structural biology. In May 2024, DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launched AlphaFold 3 (AF3), a revolutionary AI system ...