All the applications I’ve described are instances of a much more fundamental challenge in biology: predicting how proteins fold. The DNA instructions in our genome produce sequences of amino acids, which fold up into a protein whose three-dimensional features largely control how the protein actually works. Our bodies are mostly made of proteins, so understanding the relationship between their composition and function is key to developing new medicines and curing disease. Unfortunately, humans have had a fairly low accuracy rate at predicting protein folding, as the complexity involved defies
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