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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique 3D structure. Figuring out what shapes proteins fold into is known as the “protein-folding problem”, and has stood as a…
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| Nov 30, 2020 | AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology by felixr | 1,473 | 1 |
| Nov 30, 2020 | AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology by momeara | 1,398 | 660 |
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- aierou · Jan 24, 2022
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