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In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold..
Were just floating bags of water moving around, says Pushmeet Kohli, VP of research at DeepMind..
DeepMind also released the AlphaFold Protein Structure Databasewhich contained the protein structures of almost every organism whose genome has been sequencedmaking it freely available to scientists worldwide...
Last year, DeepMind released its next generation of AlphaFold, which extended its structure prediction algorithm to biomolecules like nucleic acids and ligands...
For instance, one of DeepMinds early partners, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, used AlphaFold to develop medicine for diseases that affect millionssuch as sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and leishmaniasisyet receive comparatively little research...
