AlphaFold3:
Google Deepmind has unveiled the third major version of its “AlphaFold” artificial intelligence model, designed to help scientists design drugs and target disease more effectively.
- AlphaFold3 is a new AI model developed by Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs.
- It is a revolutionary model that can predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy and even it mapped the behaviour for all of life’s molecules, including human DNA.
- It can generate molecules joint 3D structure, revealing how they all fit together.
- It models large biomolecules such as proteins, DNA and RNA, as well as small molecules, also known as ligands — a category encompassing many drugs.
- AlphaFold 3 can model chemical modifications to these molecules which control the healthy functioning of cells, that when disrupted can lead to disease.
- It assembles its predictions using a diffusion network, akin to those found in AI image generators.
