DeepMind AI Says Will Release Structure of Every Protein Known

DeepMind, an artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, said it has been successful in predicting the shape of nearly every protein in the human body as well as thousands of other proteins found in 20 additional organisms that scientists rely on for their research, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice. This breakthrough is likely to assist researchers to understand human diseases better and find new drugs to treat or cure them. Some scientists have compared the DeepMind project to the international effort to map every human gene. DeepMind said in a blog post it is releasing the database for free. To set up and run the database, it has partnered with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.