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DeepMind Makes History Again By Solving a 50-Year-Old Problem In Biology

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You may have heard about "DeepMind" in the past, and if you haven't, now you will. To this day, DeepMind has acquired a number of achievements since it was founded, but it is most notable for AlphaGo, an AI program that beat some of the best professional Go players in history including Ke Jie. DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 can now identify a protein's three-dimensional structures from its amino-acid sequence to the width of an atom. To give some context, AlphaFold2 competed with over 100 research groups worldwide in a competition known as the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction, or CASP. The goal was exactly what AlphaFold 2 achieved, to be able to predict a protein's structure from its amino-acid sequence.