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AlphaFold 2 Explained: A Semi-Deep Dive

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A quick look into the biology and machine learning behind DeepMind's new AlphaFold

At the end of last month, DeepMind, Google’s machine learning research branch known for building bots that beat world champions at Go and StarCraft II, hit a new benchmark : accurately predicting the structure of proteins. If their results are as good as the team claims, their model, AlphaFold, could be a major boon for both drug discovery and fundamental biological research. But how does this new neural-network-based model work? In this post, I’ll try to give you a brief but semi-deep dive behind both the machine learning and biology that power this model. First, a quick biology primer: The f

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