DeepMind Breakthrough Helps to Solve How Diseases Invade Cells
- Algorithms are getting closer to fixing scientific problems
- Advances promise better understanding of health, diseases
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Google’s artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome.
DeepMind Technologies Ltd.’s AlphaFold reached the threshold for “solving” the problem at the latest Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction competition. The event started in 1994 and is held every two years to accelerate research on the topic.