Has AlphaFold actually solved biology’s protein-folding problem?
The system’s predictions of millions of proteins’ structures aren’t without limits, some say
AlphaFold, a deep-learning artificial intelligence system, predicted the structure of the estrogen receptor protein, seen in this illustration binding to DNA (purple). The predicted protein has some parts folded into precise structures (pink) and other areas that resemble free-flowing spaghetti (yellow).
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