ALPHAFOLD 2
- December 8, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Science & tech
Context: DeepMind Technologies Ltd.’s AlphaFold reached the threshold for “solving” the problem at the latest Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction competition.
Concept:
- DeepMind became a subsidiary of Google after a 2014 acquisition and is best known for its gamer AI.
- DeepMind is now looking into ways of offering scientists access to the AlphaFold system in a scalable way.
- Google’s artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome.
- Different folds in a protein determine how it will interact with other molecules, and understanding them has implications for discovering how new diseases like Covid-19 invade our cells, designing enzymes to break down pollutants and improving crop yields.