Alphafold is a software that uses reinforcement learning to predict the shape of proteins. It was developed by Google's Sergey Brin, who also created AlphaGo and AlphaFol. If we can go from linear sequence to shape to function, you can now design in silico anything that you want in a living system. We don't understand enough about biology yet but if we could find a particular target for drugs, it would be an enormous step forward.

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