AlphaFold2, a wonder! AI cracking the “Protein Folding Problem”
It was during my final year of high school when I had an opportunity to visit IISER, Kolkata for a Science Workshop (organised by JBNSTS). There during one of our sessions on molecular biology, we were introduced to a software in which we can play around with protein strands and try to come up with ideal 3D configuration of the tertiary structure of the protein. It was quite interesting messing around with the software, and a professor there said that it was one of the craziest scientific challenges that we were yet to sort out — the “Protein Folding Problem”, a natural catnip for scientists!
But, hey yo, hol’ up! AI just “solved” it! Google AI offshoot DeepMind has actually made, as Nature puts it, “a gargantuan leap” in solving the Protein Folding Problem with its Alphafold 2 model! It might as well be considered as the most important achievement in AI — ever!
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https://blog.theoffbeatdoc.com/2022/02/AF2-protein-folding-problem.html
