AlphaFold: Why DeepMind's protein-folding AI is transformational

AlphaFold, DeepMind's artificial intelligence that predicts the structure of proteins, is a gift to biologists. To understand life, we need to understand proteins. Living things are molecular machines, and most of the key components are made of proteins. You are reading this article, for instance, with proteins in your retina that can detect light, various proteins that make your muscles move and so on. In one way, proteins are simple.