
Episode 410 - Ed Byrne
Probably Science
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AlphaFold - A New Approach to Protein-Folding
Algorithm trained on all 170,000 or so known protein structures. Across target proteins in this year's CASP, the third-fold achieved a median GDT score of 92.4 for the most... Yes. They finally broke that arbitrary thing they said. It even excelled at solving structures of proteins that sit wedged in cell membranes - notoriously difficult to solve with x-ray crystallography. Organisers worried DeepMind may have been cheating somehow.
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