In 2020, news headlines repeated John Moult’s words at the end of a stunning competition: Artificial intelligence had “solved” a long-standing grand challenge in biology, protein structure prediction.
While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This week marks the five-year anniversary of the debut of Alpha Fold 2, ...
AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of nature, and five years on it has rewired how laboratories plan experiments, ...