Deep Learning Is Tackling Another Core Biology Mystery: RNA Structure

Deep learning is solving biology's deepest secrets at breathtaking speed. Just a month ago, DeepMind cracked a 50-year-old grand challenge: protein folding. A week later, they produced a totally transformative database of more than 350,000 protein structures, including over 98 percent of known human proteins. Structure is at the heart of biological functions. The data dump, set to explode to 130 million structures by the end of the year, allows scientists to foray into previous "dark matter"--proteins unseen and untested--of the human body's makeup.