DeepMind AI can predict how drugs interact with proteins

An artificial intelligence system can now determine not only how proteins fold but also how they interact with other proteins, drug molecules or DNA. Biochemists and pharmaceutical researchers say the tool has the potential to vastly speed up their work, such as helping to discover new drugs. Proteins, which play many important roles in living things, are made up of chains of amino acids, but their complex 3D shapes are difficult to predict. How this moment for AI will change society forever (and how it won't) The AI company DeepMind first announced in 2020 that its AlphaFold AI could accurately predict protein structure from amino acid sequences, solving one of the biggest challenges in biology. By the middle of 2021, the company said that it had mapped 98.5 per cent of the proteins in the human body.