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#299 – Demis Hassabis: DeepMind

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How to Predict the 3D Structure of a Protein

The protein folding problem is, can you just from the amino acid sequence, the one dimensional string of letters. Can you immediately computationally predict the 3D structure? And this has been a grand challenge in biology for over 50 years. With alpha fall two, we were able to predict the3D structure in a matter of seconds. Over Christmas, we did the whole human proteome or every protein in the human body or 20,000 proteins.

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