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The Protein Folding Problem
Alpefold is our system to solve what's been called the protein folding problem. The shape of a protein often is whate governs its function. So if you want to understand the function of the proteing, what it's doing, and how it goes wrong in disease, and what drugs to target and so on, you sort of need to understand the three d shape. We used that initial dateo hundred 50 thousand to train ortefold, which bespoke our innovative deep learning system with some special case thingsin it that related to biology and physics That we put into the system. And it's able to predict and take an amino acid sequence and give you back the three le structure
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