Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence has revealed the 3-D structure of 200 million proteins that are contained in every living organism – enabling scientists to instantaneously access in-depth information on the building blocks of life.
Scientists used to spend many months or years to understand the structure of proteins prior to the AI program known as AlphaFold having solved one of biology’s most difficult problems in November 2020. Researchers often used tools like X-rays, but now that complex information is available