AlphaFold advances protein folding research

The grand challenge of protein folding hit the news this week when it was announced that the latest version of DeepMind's AlphaFold system had predicted protein structures with very high accuracy in CASP's 2020 experiment. Proteins are large, complex molecules, and the shape of a particular protein is closely linked to the function it performs. The ability to accurately predict protein structures would enable scientists to gain a greater understanding of how they work and what they do. This new version of AlphaFold builds on the initial system, which you can read about in this paper. The associated code is available here.