Quanta.org -- How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, But Didn't End It

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Quanta.org -- How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, But Didn't End It

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...a lengthy article describing the use of AI, and particularly DeepMind and AlphaFold(x), to help solve the "protein folding problem."

Particular Qs I have...
1. How do F@H and DeepMind projects overlap?
2. How do they differ?

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ai-r ... -20240626/
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Re: Quanta.org -- How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, But Didn't End It

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Short answer : DeepMind, AlphaFold, Rosetta@Home projects predict the possible stable structures for proteins, Folding@Home studies how you get to these structures or how you leaves them for another one.

FAH results are like a movie whereas other project's results are more like pictures.
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Re: Quanta.org -- How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, But Didn't End It

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Greg (director of Folding@home) recently wrote about this a bit on the site's blog: https://foldingathome.org/2024/05/02/al ... ldinghome/
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