Today, artificial intelligence is used in almost every field. Health and biotechnologies stand out as one of the areas where artificial intelligence is used the most. An artificial intelligence developed to study protein structures reveals how important machines can be.
An artificial intelligence launched last year has successfully predicted the 3D model of almost every protein structure that scientists have discovered to date. Although this AI had learned basic protein logic, it had not learned the models.
200 million proteins
There are thousands and millions of structures that fall into the protein class in biological science. Scientists continue to work to reveal these structures. Developed by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary, AlphaFold predicts and publicly shares 3D models of proteins.
According to the explanations, scientists in the past took months at best, and often years, to predict the structure of a protein. Now, thanks to artificial intelligence, it is possible to predict the structure of a protein in seconds. According to scientists, it will be possible to solve more biological riddles and make more medical progress thanks to this artificial intelligence.
The new models created by artificial intelligence, which makes predictions about the way amino acid chains are connected, will also help scientists understand how proteins work. These proteins, which are currently used against some diseases, are expected to take part in the fight against plastic pollution in the future and play an important role in molecular biology.
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