Life2020sFocus

 Google DeepMind, in collaboration with Isomorphic Labs, announced AlphaFold 3, a breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict the structure and interactions of all molecules of life with unprecedented accuracy. This new model represents a significant advance over the previous generation, his AlphaFold 2, which primarily focused on protein structure prediction. AlphaFold 3 expands the ability to model a wide range of biomolecules, including DNA, RNA, ligands, and other organic elements, providing a comprehensive understanding of life at the molecular level. AlphaFold 3 is based on a next-generation framework and includes an improved version of the Evoformer module, the deep learning architecture that powers AlphaFold 2's superior performance. The model uses a diffusion network to make predictions, starting with a cloud of atoms and going through many steps to arrive at the most accurate molecular structure. This method allows AlphaFold 3 to predict general 3D st...