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DeepMind creates 'transformative' map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence
AI research lab DeepMind has created the most comprehensive map of human proteins to date using artificial intelligence. The company, a subsidiary of Google-parent Alphabet, is releasing the data for free, with some scientists comparing the potential impact of the work to that of the Human Genome Project, an international effort to map every human gene.
[...] Previously, determining the structure of a protein relied on expensive and time-consuming experiments. But last year DeepMind showed it can produce accurate predictions of a protein's structure using AI software called AlphaFold. Now, the company is releasing hundreds of thousands of predictions made by the program to the public.
"I see this as the culmination of the entire 10-year-plus lifetime of DeepMind," company CEO and co-founder Demis Hassabis told The Verge. "From the beginning, this is what we set out to do: to make breakthroughs in AI, test that on games like Go and Atari, [and] apply that to real-world problems, to see if we can accelerate scientific breakthroughs and use those to benefit humanity."
Also at BBC and Ars Technica.
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome (open, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1) (DX)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Tork on Sunday July 25 2021, @12:21AM (1 child)
I'll just be up front and say had I not gotten the joke I would have complained. Okay, I'm too sensitive, but I also just recently watched an Alabama official call a colleague an inappropriate term... loudly, and on camera, oh and it hit her hard enough for her to break down. Why'd he do that? Allegedly his wife was quite comfortable using the term on FB and he was defending her. Again, I got the joke and didn't complain, but I DID think of this recent incident because of it, it's very fresh in people's minds right now. Maybe if the joke had been made a week or two from now... away from that story I mean this wouldn't have gotten as much attention.
Sometimes it's about the remark, sometimes its about its proximity to other events, oh and we still have big problems that need resolving like making our law enforcement less-murdery. There are people out there actively ruining it for everybody.
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 26 2021, @01:44PM
That city council member was quoting what the black mayor said about a black council member, after having his wife attacked during the public meeting.